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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) 120.
(b) 30.
(c) 150.
(d) 85.

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1905.

3. Where was Marc Reisner born?
(a) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(b) St. Paul, Minnesota.
(c) Billings, Montana.
(d) Durango, Colorado.

4. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) Silicon Valley.
(b) The Sacramento Valley.
(c) The San Joaquin Valley.
(d) Imperial Valley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?

2. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?

3. When was Marc Reisner born?

4. 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?

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?

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