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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Moab.
(b) Provo.
(c) Ogden.
(d) Salt Lake City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Mulholland born?

2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

3. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?

4. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?

5. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

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