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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, “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?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1971.

2. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) Paul Sears.
(b) Mike Strauss.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) E. O. Wattis.

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

4. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 39.
(d) 27.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

2. Where is Mono Lake located?

3. Who wrote the biography of Lyndon Johnson titled The Path to Power?

4. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?

5. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

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