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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 author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 1.

2. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1919.

3. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.
(b) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.
(c) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(d) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.

4. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $8 million.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $5 million.

5. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?
(a) Montana.
(b) Washington.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Colorado.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?

3. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

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. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

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