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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(b) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.
(c) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.
(d) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.

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

3. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?
(a) Walter Prescott Webb.
(b) Cordell Hull.
(c) Harry Morrison.
(d) Lloyd Tevis.

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

5. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

3. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

4. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

5. Where was William Mulholland born?

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