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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1855.

2. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?
(a) The Gila Desert.
(b) The Sonoran Desert.
(c) The Sahara Desert.
(d) The Gobi Desert.

3. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?
(a) 23.
(b) 4.
(c) 11.
(d) 35.

4. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?
(a) The DiGiorgio Company.
(b) The Tenneco Corporation.
(c) Irvine Ranch.
(d) Sierra Pacific Industries.

5. 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?
(a) 13.
(b) 22.
(c) 38.
(d) 4.

Short Answer 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?

2. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?

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?

4. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?

5. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?

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