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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1979.

2. What is the title of Chapter Six?
(a) “Things Fall Apart.”
(b) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”
(c) “Rivals in Crime.”
(d) “Dominy.”

3. What is the title of Chapter Eight?
(a) “An American Nile (II).”
(b) “Things Fall Apart.”
(c) “Chinatown.”
(d) “Dominy.”

4. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Pellucid.
(b) Irradiate.
(c) Translucent.
(d) Reflective.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 39.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?

2. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?

3. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?

4. When was the Central Valley Project Act passed in California?

5. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

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