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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?
(a) Irvine Ranch.
(b) The DiGiorgio Company.
(c) The Tenneco Corporation.
(d) Sierra Pacific Industries.

2. When was the Central Valley Project Act passed in California?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1908.

3. What is the title of Chapter Eight?
(a) “An American Nile (II).”
(b) “Chinatown.”
(c) “Dominy.”
(d) “Things Fall Apart.”

4. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1955.

5. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1979.

6. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Sacramento.
(b) The Kern.
(c) The Trinity.
(d) The Tuolumne.

7. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 39.
(d) 27.

8. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?
(a) Fresno, California.
(b) Truckee, California.
(c) Redding, California.
(d) Oakland, California.

9. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?
(a) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(b) The Internal Revenue Service.
(c) The Corps of Engineers.
(d) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

10. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1963.

11. Where is Bijou Creek located?
(a) Washington.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Colorado.
(d) California.

12. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?
(a) 2.
(b) 77.
(c) 24.
(d) 41.

13. The California Aqueduct begins at what location?
(a) Oroville Dam.
(b) Shasta Dam
(c) New Bullards Bar Dam.
(d) Folsom Dam.

14. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Dartmouth College.
(b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Princeton University.

15. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?

2. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?

3. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?

4. When did the American Revolutionary War end?

5. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?

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