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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 Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Kern.
(b) The Sacramento.
(c) The Trinity.
(d) The Tuolumne.

2. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser’s.
(b) James Marshall’s.
(c) C.W. Hollister’s.
(d) Jedediah Smith’s.

3. 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) 1952.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1965.

4. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Mount Morris, New York.
(b) Aurora, Illinois.
(c) Akron, Ohio.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

5. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
(a) Nine Companies, Inc.
(b) Six Companies, Inc.
(c) Four Companies, Inc.
(d) Three Companies, Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the city in which the Hohokam lived and where downtown Phoenix is today?

2. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

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

4. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

5. Where is Bijou Creek located?

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