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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1993.

3. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1834.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1865.

4. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?
(a) Dams.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Oceans.

5. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(b) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.
(c) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.
(d) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

2. 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”?

3. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

4. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

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