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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 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) Bahmona.
(b) Hohokam.
(c) Trincala.
(d) Brenula.

2. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?
(a) James Marshall.
(b) Michael Robinson.
(c) Jim Casey.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

3. Where was Marc Reisner born?
(a) Billings, Montana.
(b) Durango, Colorado.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) St. Paul, Minnesota.

4. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1905.

5. 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?
(a) The Brooks Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Wasatch Range.
(d) The Cascade Range.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

2. 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?

3. Where was William Mulholland born?

4. What is the state capital of Utah?

5. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?

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