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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?
(a) Desert Oasis Hotel and Spa.
(b) Bishop’s Lodge.
(c) Thirty Palms Resort.
(d) Mesa Verde Lodge.

2. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Trinity.
(b) The Tuolumne.
(c) The Sacramento.
(d) The Kern.

3. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) London, England.
(b) Lisbon, Portugal.
(c) Dublin, Ireland.
(d) Stockholm, Sweden.

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Muslim faith.
(b) The Mormon faith.
(c) The Christian Science faith.
(d) The Jewish faith.

5. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

2. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?

3. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

4. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?

5. When was Harry Chandler born?

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