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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 Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?
(a) 267,532.
(b) 124,975.
(c) 79,844.
(d) 24,481.

2. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Tuolumne.
(b) The Trinity.
(c) The Kern.
(d) The Sacramento.

3. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1964.

4. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Ken Maddy.
(b) Cordell Hull.
(c) Ray Roberts.
(d) Harry Morrison.

5. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
(a) Four Companies, Inc.
(b) Six Companies, Inc.
(c) Three Companies, Inc.
(d) Nine Companies, Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

3. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?

4. 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?

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

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