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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the motto of the Corps of Engineers?
(a) “Our Way or the Highway.”
(b) “Rearranging Nature.”
(c) “Building Tomorrow Today.”
(d) “Strength through Infrastructure.”

2. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?
(a) $485 billion.
(b) $235 billion.
(c) $820 billion.
(d) $1.13 trillion.

3. 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.

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Trinity Mountains.
(b) The Cascade Mountains.
(c) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

5. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Davis Lodge.
(b) The Richardson Motor Lodge.
(c) The Dillard Motor Hotel.
(d) The Bellingham Hotel.

6. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?
(a) 5.2 million.
(b) 2.8 million.
(c) 8.5 million.
(d) 1.9 million.

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

8. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(b) “Chinatown.”
(c) “A Country of Illusion.”
(d) “The Go-Go Years.”

9. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) Mike Strauss.
(b) Paul Sears.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) E. O. Wattis.

10. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Cordell Hull.
(b) Ken Maddy.
(c) Ray Roberts.
(d) Harry Morrison.

11. According to the author in Chapter Eight, “The first serious doubts about the 7.5-million-acre-foot figure were raised bywhat distinguished hydrologic engineer at a conference in Washington, D.C., in 1953?
(a) Herbert Grubb.
(b) Raymond Hill.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) Emil Haury.

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

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

14. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
(a) June 6, 1928.
(b) September 30, 1935.
(c) April 25, 1907.
(d) December 4, 1942.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1960?

2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

3. In 1952, when Los Angeles built a second battery of pumps at the head of its aqueduct, California’s diversion climbed toward how many acre-feet?

4. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?

5. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?

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