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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 12.
(d) 39.

2. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “The Go-Go Years.”
(b) “Chinatown.”
(c) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Translucent.
(b) Pellucid.
(c) Irradiate.
(d) Reflective.

4. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 27,000.

5. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1904.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Charles Rockwood convince to join forces with him in irrigation, according to the author in Chapter Four?

2. What is the motto of the Corps of Engineers?

3. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?

4. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

5. What is the state capital of Utah?

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