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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Princeton University.

2. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1996.

3. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1952.

4. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) Paul Sears.
(b) Bill Warne.
(c) E. O. Wattis.
(d) Mike Strauss.

5. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?

2. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?

3. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

4. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?

5. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?

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