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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 & 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 27,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 12,000.

2. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Mount Morris, New York.
(b) Akron, Ohio.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

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

4. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The Rocky Mountains.
(b) The Canadian Spur.
(c) The American Ridge.
(d) The Continental Divide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?

2. 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?

3. Where was William Mulholland born?

4. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?

5. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

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