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

2. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Boston.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

3. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1996.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

4. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?

5. 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?

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