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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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”?
(a) 6,000,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 250,000.

2. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Yellowstone River.
(b) The Snake River.
(c) The Salmon River.
(d) The Owyhee River.

3. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?
(a) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Red Delicious apples.
(b) Valencia oranges.
(c) Bing cherries.
(d) Himalayan blackberries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?

2. When was John Wesley Powell born?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?

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