1. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Dartmouth College.

2. 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?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser’s.
(b) Jedediah Smith’s.
(c) James Marshall’s.
(d) C.W. Hollister’s.

3. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1945.

4. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1964.

5. 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?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was the Bayano Dam built?

3. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

4. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

5. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

(see the answer key)

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