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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Harry S. Truman born?
(a) Medford, Oregon.
(b) Pueblo, Colorado.
(c) Lamar, Missouri.
(d) Cody, Wyoming.

2. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.

3. When was the Bayano Dam built?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1944.

4. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.
(b) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.
(c) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(d) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.

5. 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) Jim Casey.
(c) Michael Robinson.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?

2. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?

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

4. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

5. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

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