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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Sierra Nevada.
(b) The Wasatch Range.
(c) The Cascade Range.
(d) The Brooks Range.

2. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?
(a) Dams.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Deserts.
(d) Oceans.

3. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?
(a) Francis G. Newlands.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Raymond Hill.
(d) Jim Casey.

4. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 7,600.
(d) 9,400.

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

6. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

8. How many major dams does the author say California has in the Introduction?
(a) 240.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 560.
(d) 50.

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

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

11. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?
(a) Trincala.
(b) Brenula.
(c) Bahmona.
(d) Hohokam.

12. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser.
(b) W. A. Bechtel.
(c) James Marshall.
(d) Wayne Wyatt.

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

14. When was Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1948.

15. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?

2. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?

3. When was William Mulholland born?

4. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?

5. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

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