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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 Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1934.

2. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?
(a) Michael Robinson.
(b) Jim Wright.
(c) W. H. Wattis.
(d) Floyd Dominy.

3. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?
(a) Rivals in Crime.
(b) First Causes.
(c) Chinatown.
(d) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.

4. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?
(a) Harry Morrison.
(b) Jim Casey.
(c) Emil Haury.
(d) W. A. Bechtel.

5. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?
(a) Brenula.
(b) Hohokam.
(c) Trincala.
(d) Bahmona.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Boulder Dam authorized and the All-American Canal on the condition that at least six of the seven states ratify the compact?

2. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?

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