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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 & 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

3. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) Ely, Minnesota.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Marietta, Ohio.
(d) Green Bay, Wisconsin.

4. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) James Marshall.
(d) C.W. Hollister.

5. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 27,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 12,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

3. When was Harry Chandler born?

4. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?

5. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?

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