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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 250,000.
(b) 6,000,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 500,000.

2. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) 1474.
(b) 1362.
(c) 1297.
(d) 1539.

3. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?
(a) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
(b) The Internal Revenue Service.
(c) The Corps of Engineers.
(d) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

4. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1892.

5. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?

2. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?

3. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?

4. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?

5. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

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