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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
(a) June 6, 1928.
(b) December 4, 1942.
(c) April 25, 1907.
(d) September 30, 1935.

2. In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt take office as President of the United States?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1946.

3. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 9 million.
(d) 60 million.

4. 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.

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”?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(c) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(d) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.

Short Answer 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”?

2. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?

3. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?

4. According to the author in Chapter Eight, “The first serious doubts about the 7.5-million-acre-foot figure were raised bywhat distinguished hydrologic engineer at a conference in Washington, D.C., in 1953?

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

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