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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 & Epilogue.

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) 79,844.
(b) 24,481.
(c) 124,975.
(d) 267,532.

2. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Cascade Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Wasatch Range.
(d) The Brooks Range.

3. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Sierra Nevada.
(b) The Cascade Mountains.
(c) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(d) The Trinity Mountains.

4. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Illinois.

5. According to the author of The Path to Power, Lyndon Johnson owed his political career largely to what?
(a) The Folsom Dam.
(b) The Hoover Dam.
(c) The Marshall Ford Dam.
(d) The Shasta Dam.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

2. The author states in Chapter Ten that agriculture uses what percent of all the water in California?

3. In what year was the Boulder Dam authorized and the All-American Canal on the condition that at least six of the seven states ratify the compact?

4. The Ogallala region supports not so much a farming industry as what, according to the author in Chapter Twelve?

5. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?

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