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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 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 950 million.
(c) 80 million.
(d) 2 billion.

2. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
(a) Six Companies, Inc.
(b) Three Companies, Inc.
(c) Nine Companies, Inc.
(d) Four Companies, Inc.

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?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Alabama.

4. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1965.

5. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Henry J. Kaiser.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

2. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?

3. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?

4. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?

5. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?

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