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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1856.

2. 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?
(a) Trincala.
(b) Brenula.
(c) Hohokam.
(d) Bahmona.

3. 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 American Ridge.
(c) The Canadian Spur.
(d) The Continental Divide.

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

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1897.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

2. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?

4. 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?

5. When was John Wesley Powell born?

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