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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 were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?
(a) The California Water Wars.
(b) The Aquatic Revolution.
(c) The Urban Water Hoard.
(d) The Great Acquisition.

2. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) Google Maps.
(b) The SatNav Registry.
(c) The Landsat Program.
(d) MapQuest.

3. 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) 39.
(b) 12.
(c) 24.
(d) 3.

4. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?
(a) C.W. Hollister’s.
(b) Jedediah Smith’s.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser’s.
(d) James Marshall’s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

2. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?

3. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?

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

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