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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 in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 24.
(d) 39.

2. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Sierra Nevada.
(b) The Cascade Range.
(c) The Brooks Range.
(d) The Wasatch Range.

3. What is the title of Chapter Three?
(a) “The Red Queen.”
(b) “First Causes.”
(c) “Things Fall Apart.”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

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

5. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 25 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 60 million.
(d) 9 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

2. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?

3. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

4. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

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?

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