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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?
(a) Shasta Lake.
(b) Don Pedro Reservoir.
(c) Buena Vista Lake.
(d) Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.

2. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?
(a) W. A. Bechtel.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) Jim Casey.
(d) Harry Morrison.

3. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Brooks Range.
(b) The Wasatch Range.
(c) The Cascade Range.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

4. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?
(a) N.H. Darton.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Paul Sears.
(d) Emil Haury.

5. When was the Bayano Dam built?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?

2. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

3. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?

4. The 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?

5. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?

(see the answer key)

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