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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter Eight, “The first serious doubts about the 7.5-million-acre-foot figure were raised bywhat distinguished hydrologic engineer at a conference in Washington, D.C., in 1953?
(a) Raymond Hill.
(b) Herbert Grubb.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) Emil Haury.

2. When did the American Revolutionary War end?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1902.

3. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?
(a) 27.
(b) 39.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

5. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 9,400.
(c) 7,600.
(d) 5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?

2. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

3. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

4. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “On the east side of the Sierra-Cascade crest, moisture drops immediately from as much as 150 inches of precipitation on the western slope to as little as” how many inches on the eastern slope?

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