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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 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) 22.
(b) 38.
(c) 4.
(d) 13.

2. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 4.
(d) 22.

3. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1977.
(d) 2007.

4. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Salmon River.
(b) The Owyhee River.
(c) The Snake River.
(d) The Yellowstone River.

5. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?

2. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

3. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?

4. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?

5. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?

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