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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) 1362.
(b) 1539.
(c) 1474.
(d) 1297.

2. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2007.

3. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Montana.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Washington.

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

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

6. 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) Phoenix, Arizona.
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(c) Reno, Nevada.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

7. Which states are touched by the Colorado River?
(a) Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California.
(b) Idaho, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
(c) New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.
(d) Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

8. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
(a) 29,000.
(b) 12,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 22,000.

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

10. 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?
(a) The Urban Water Hoard.
(b) The California Water Wars.
(c) The Aquatic Revolution.
(d) The Great Acquisition.

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

12. 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) Brenula.
(b) Hohokam.
(c) Trincala.
(d) Bahmona.

13. 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 Canadian Spur.
(b) The Rocky Mountains.
(c) The American Ridge.
(d) The Continental Divide.

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

15. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1958.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

2. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

3. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?

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. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?

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