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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Marc Reisner born?
(a) St. Paul, Minnesota.
(b) Billings, Montana.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) Durango, Colorado.

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

3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?
(a) Jim Casey.
(b) James Marshall.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Michael Robinson.

4. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 9 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 60 million.
(d) 3 million.

5. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?

2. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

3. What river is known as the River of No Return?

4. What is the state capital of Utah?

5. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?

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