1. What is the title of Chapter Nine?
(a) “A Country of Illusion.”
(b) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”
(c) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(d) “The Red Queen.”

2. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.

3. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) Silicon Valley.
(b) Imperial Valley.
(c) The San Joaquin Valley.
(d) The Sacramento Valley.

4. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?
(a) Chihuahua.
(b) Tijuana.
(c) Monterrey.
(d) Mexico City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?

2. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?

3. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?

4. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

5. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?

(see the answer key)

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