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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Reclamation Act established?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1902.

2. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “Chinatown.”
(b) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(c) “The Go-Go Years.”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

3. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The American Ridge.
(b) The Continental Divide.
(c) The Canadian Spur.
(d) The Rocky Mountains.

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Muslim faith.
(b) The Christian Science faith.
(c) The Mormon faith.
(d) The Jewish faith.

5. In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt take office as President of the United States?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

2. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?

3. Where was John Wesley Powell born?

4. According to the author, “[Ronald] Reagan, as a westerner, should have been a friend of dams, but he was growing more conservative by the hour, and true conservatives tend to dislike” what?

5. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?

(see the answer key)

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