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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 800.
(d) 4,500.

2. 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) 1928.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1917.

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

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

5. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?
(a) 56 years.
(b) 212 years.
(c) 328 years.
(d) 134 years.

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

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

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

9. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1920.

10. 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) Mushrooms.
(c) Trees.
(d) Ferns.

11. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Mormon faith.
(b) The Christian Science faith.
(c) The Muslim faith.
(d) The Jewish faith.

12. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.

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

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

15. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 27,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 48,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

2. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

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

4. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?

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

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