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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?
(a) 150.
(b) 120.
(c) 30.
(d) 85.

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

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

4. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Pellucid.
(b) Translucent.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Irradiate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Wesley Powell born?

2. 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?

3. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

4. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. 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?

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