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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 Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?
(a) 79,844.
(b) 267,532.
(c) 24,481.
(d) 124,975.

2. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?
(a) Arizona and Nevada.
(b) California and Arizona.
(c) Arizona and New Mexico.
(d) California and Nevada.

3. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Aurora, Illinois.
(b) Gary, Indiana.
(c) Mount Morris, New York.
(d) Akron, Ohio.

4. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

5. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 65%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 40%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

2. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1940?

3. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, “On the east side of the Sierra-Cascade crest, moisture drops immediately from as much as 150 inches of precipitation on the western slope to as little as” how many inches on the eastern slope?

5. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?

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