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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 what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1919.

2. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Harry Morrison.
(b) Cordell Hull.
(c) Ray Roberts.
(d) Ken Maddy.

3. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
(a) September 30, 1935.
(b) December 4, 1942.
(c) April 25, 1907.
(d) June 6, 1928.

4. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?
(a) Michael Robinson.
(b) W. H. Wattis.
(c) Floyd Dominy.
(d) Jim Wright.

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?

2. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

4. When was John Wesley Powell born?

5. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?

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