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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1855.
2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?
(a) Pueblo, Colorado.
(b) Cody, Wyoming.
(c) Medford, Oregon.
(d) Lamar, Missouri.
3. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 75,000.
4. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) The SatNav Registry.
(b) MapQuest.
(c) Google Maps.
(d) The Landsat Program.
5. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1959.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?
2. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?
3. Where was Harry Chandler born?
4. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
5. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
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