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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?
(a) 65%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

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

3. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.
(b) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.
(c) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.
(d) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.

4. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Himalayan blackberries.
(b) Bing cherries.
(c) Red Delicious apples.
(d) Valencia oranges.

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The Rocky Mountains.
(b) The Continental Divide.
(c) The American Ridge.
(d) The Canadian Spur.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Reclamation Act established?

2. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

3. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

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 did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

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