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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1917.

2. What is the title of Chapter Eight?
(a) “Chinatown.”
(b) “Dominy.”
(c) “An American Nile (II).”
(d) “Things Fall Apart.”

3. The 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?
(a) 18.
(b) 25.
(c) 71.
(d) 52.

4. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?
(a) B.B. Moeur.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Henry J. Kaiser.

5. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 800.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

2. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?

3. 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?

4. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?

5. The dedication ceremony of the Hoover Dam drew approximately how many people?

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