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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 65%.

2. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The Rocky Mountains.
(b) The Canadian Spur.
(c) The Continental Divide.
(d) The American Ridge.

3. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1856.

4. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1882.

5. The Ogallala Aquifer was named by whom?
(a) B.B. Moeur.
(b) Walter Prescott Webb.
(c) N.H. Darton.
(d) George Chaffey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Corps of Engineers officially christened with its current name?

2. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

3. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?

4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?

5. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?

(see the answer key)

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