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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 what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1928.

2. 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) 1965.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1952.

3. What was the name of the city in which the Hohokam lived and where downtown Phoenix is today?
(a) Buena Vista.
(b) Mesa Verde.
(c) Pueblo Grande.
(d) Palo Cedro.

4. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Lisbon, Portugal.
(b) Stockholm, Sweden.
(c) Dublin, Ireland.
(d) London, England.

5. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?

3. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?

4. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

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