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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Harry Chandler born?
(a) Landaff, New Hampshire.
(b) Arco, Idaho.
(c) Akron, Ohio.
(d) Marquette, Michigan.

2. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Translucent.
(b) Pellucid.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Irradiate.

3. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?
(a) 150.
(b) 85.
(c) 30.
(d) 120.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

2. Where was Marc Reisner born?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?

5. What river is known as the River of No Return?

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