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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

2. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) James Marshall.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) Robert Caro.

3. 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?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Boise, Idaho.
(c) Fargo, North Dakota.
(d) Miami, Florida.

4. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
(a) 12,500.
(b) 29,000.
(c) 22,000.
(d) 5,000.

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?

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

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. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?

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

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