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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Trincala.
(c) Bahmona.
(d) Brenula.

2. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona.
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(c) Reno, Nevada.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?

2. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?

3. 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?

4. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?

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

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