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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the planning director of the Texas Water Development Board when the book was written?
(a) Herbert Grubb.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Raymond Hill.

2. In 1954, there were how many irrigation wells in all of West Texas?
(a) 39,518.
(b) 27,983.
(c) 14,207.
(d) 71,329.

3. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1983.

4. 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?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Idaho.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1960?

2. When was the Reclamation Act established?

3. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?

4. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?

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