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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 & 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Boston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Kansas City.
(d) New York City.

2. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The Continental Divide.
(b) The American Ridge.
(c) The Rocky Mountains.
(d) The Canadian Spur.

3. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 9 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 60 million.

4. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Moab.
(b) Salt Lake City.
(c) Ogden.
(d) Provo.

5. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Stockholm, Sweden.
(b) London, England.
(c) Dublin, Ireland.
(d) Lisbon, Portugal.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?

2. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

3. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?

4. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

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