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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) The Sacramento Valley.
(b) The San Joaquin Valley.
(c) Silicon Valley.
(d) Imperial Valley.

2. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
(a) 29,000.
(b) 12,500.
(c) 22,000.
(d) 5,000.

3. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1904.

4. When was Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1934.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the Central Valley Project Act passed in California?

3. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?

4. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

5. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?

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