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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Boise, Idaho.
(c) Fargo, North Dakota.
(d) Miami, Florida.

2. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Ohio.

3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?
(a) James Marshall.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Michael Robinson.
(d) Jim Casey.

4. Who did Charles Rockwood convince to join forces with him in irrigation, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) N.H. Darton.
(b) Michael Robinson.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) George Chaffey.

5. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) Google Maps.
(b) The Landsat Program.
(c) MapQuest.
(d) The SatNav Registry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

3. Where was John Wesley Powell born?

4. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?

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”?

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