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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Alabama.

2. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?
(a) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.
(b) Chinatown.
(c) First Causes.
(d) Rivals in Crime.

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

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

5. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 9 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 60 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Mulholland born?

2. When was Harry Chandler born?

3. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

4. 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?

5. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?

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