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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The Nature Conservancy.
(b) The Sierra Club.
(c) The World Wildlife Fund.
(d) The Natural Resources Defense Council.

2. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Bill Warne.
(c) Rita Singer.
(d) Francis G. Newlands.

3. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1943.

4. 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) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.
(b) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.
(c) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(d) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.

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?
(a) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(b) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.
(c) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.
(d) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?

2. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?

3. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?

4. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?

5. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

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