1. What is the title of Chapter Three?
(a) “First Causes.”
(b) “Things Fall Apart.”
(c) “The Red Queen.”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

2. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1911.

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

4. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) London, England.
(c) Stockholm, Sweden.
(d) Lisbon, Portugal.

5. 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?
(a) 12.
(b) 39.
(c) 3.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?

3. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

4. How many major dams does the author say California has in the Introduction?

5. What is the state capital of Utah?

(see the answer key)

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