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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) September 30, 1935.
(b) June 6, 1928.
(c) April 25, 1907.
(d) December 4, 1942.

2. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Davis Lodge.
(b) The Dillard Motor Hotel.
(c) The Bellingham Hotel.
(d) The Richardson Motor Lodge.

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Translucent.
(b) Irradiate.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Pellucid.

4. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?
(a) Democrat.
(b) Patrician.
(c) Libertarian.
(d) Republican.

5. 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) 500,000.
(b) 6,000,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 250,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?

2. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?

3. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?

4. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?

5. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?

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