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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?
(a) Two-thirds of an inch.
(b) One-quarter of an inch.
(c) Six-tenths of an inch.
(d) Four-tenths of an inch.

2. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?
(a) Truckee, California.
(b) Redding, California.
(c) Oakland, California.
(d) Fresno, California.

3. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Ken Maddy.
(b) Ray Roberts.
(c) Cordell Hull.
(d) Harry Morrison.

4. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?
(a) 66,238.
(b) 14,595.
(c) 37,342.
(d) 112,564.

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

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

5. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?

(see the answer key)

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