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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 was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
(a) 22,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 12,500.
(d) 29,000.

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1933.

3. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?
(a) 80.
(b) 225.
(c) 150.
(d) 35.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?

2. 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?

3. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?

4. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. In 1930, the American West had a population of how many people?

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