2. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The Natural Resources Defense Council.
(b) The Sierra Club.
(c) The Nature Conservancy.
(d) The World Wildlife Fund.

3. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?
(a) 150.
(b) 120.
(c) 85.
(d) 30.

4. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 9 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 60 million.

5. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?
(a) 40%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 80%.

6. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Wasatch Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Cascade Range.
(d) The Brooks Range.

7. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 3.
(b) 39.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

8. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) James Marshall.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) Robert Caro.

9. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?
(a) Harry Morrison.
(b) Cordell Hull.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Walter Prescott Webb.

10. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Mount Morris, New York.
(b) Akron, Ohio.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

11. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1876.

12. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Kansas City.

13. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?
(a) Ray Roberts.
(b) Raymond Hill.
(c) Robert Caro.
(d) Mike Strauss.

14. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?
(a) 6,000,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

15. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?

2. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?

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

4. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. When was the Reclamation Act established?

(see the answer keys)

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