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

2. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1977.

3. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) C.W. Hollister.
(b) James Marshall.
(c) Emil Haury.
(d) Floyd Dominy.

4. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Montana.
(d) Washington.

5. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The Natural Resources Defense Council.
(b) The World Wildlife Fund.
(c) The Sierra Club.
(d) The Nature Conservancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was John Wesley Powell born?

3. When was Marc Reisner born?

4. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

5. Where was William Mulholland born?

(see the answer key)

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