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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) Boise, Idaho.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.

2. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.
(b) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(c) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.
(d) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.

3. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.
(b) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(c) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.
(d) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.

4. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1971.

5. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?
(a) Don Pedro Reservoir.
(b) Buena Vista Lake.
(c) Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
(d) Shasta Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river is known as the River of No Return?

2. Where was Harry Chandler born?

3. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

4. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?

5. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?

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