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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?
(a) Cordell Hull.
(b) Lloyd Tevis.
(c) Walter Prescott Webb.
(d) Harry Morrison.

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) Trees.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Lichens.

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

4. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Moab.
(b) Ogden.
(c) Salt Lake City.
(d) Provo.

5. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

2. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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