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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?
(a) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

2. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Lichens.
(c) Trees.
(d) Ferns.

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

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

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Where was John Wesley Powell born?

5. 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?

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