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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1969, a study performed by Texas A and M University projected that the West Texas aquifer would decline to forty-four million acre-feet by what year?
(a) 2020.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2025.
(d) 2035.

2. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1957.

3. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?
(a) Trincala.
(b) Hohokam.
(c) Bahmona.
(d) Brenula.

4. Ronnie Dugger published what periodical?
(a) The Texas Observer.
(b) The Cowboy Gazette.
(c) The Lone Star Herald.
(d) The Big Sky Times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

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

3. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?

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

5. When was John Wesley Powell born?

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