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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) 1539.
(b) 1297.
(c) 1362.
(d) 1474.

2. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) James Marshall.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) Floyd Dominy.

3. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Brooks Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Wasatch Range.
(d) The Cascade Range.

4. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Owyhee River.
(b) The Snake River.
(c) The Salmon River.
(d) The Yellowstone River.

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?
(a) 13.
(b) 4.
(c) 38.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the state capital of Utah?

2. When was John Wesley Powell born?

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

4. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?

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

(see the answer key)

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