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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) Google Maps.
(b) MapQuest.
(c) The Landsat Program.
(d) The SatNav Registry.

3. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1907.

4. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) Imperial Valley.
(b) The San Joaquin Valley.
(c) Silicon Valley.
(d) The Sacramento Valley.

5. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
(a) Lichens.
(b) Trees.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Ferns.

6. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Salt Lake City.
(b) Ogden.
(c) Moab.
(d) Provo.

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

8. 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) 1936.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1917.

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

10. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?
(a) Patrician.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democrat.

11. Where was Harry Chandler born?
(a) Akron, Ohio.
(b) Marquette, Michigan.
(c) Arco, Idaho.
(d) Landaff, New Hampshire.

12. Where was Marc Reisner born?
(a) Billings, Montana.
(b) St. Paul, Minnesota.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) Durango, Colorado.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?

2. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

3. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

4. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?

5. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?

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