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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1971.

2. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1865.

3. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?
(a) 112,564.
(b) 14,595.
(c) 66,238.
(d) 37,342.

4. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?
(a) The Gobi Desert.
(b) The Sahara Desert.
(c) The Sonoran Desert.
(d) The Gila Desert.

5. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) C.W. Hollister.
(c) James Marshall.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?

2. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?

3. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?

4. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

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