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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) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(b) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

2. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?
(a) Hohokam.
(b) Brenula.
(c) Bahmona.
(d) Trincala.

3. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?
(a) Raymond Hill.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Francis G. Newlands.
(d) Jim Casey.

4. 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) 1362.
(b) 1539.
(c) 1297.
(d) 1474.

5. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?
(a) 30.
(b) 85.
(c) 150.
(d) 120.

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. Where was Marc Reisner born?

3. When was the Reclamation Act established?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

5. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

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