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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Corps of Engineers officially christened with its current name?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1817.

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

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

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

5. 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) 1940.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1929.

6. On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” before a gathering of his peers in Davis, California, according to the author in Chapter Six?
(a) September 22, 1951.
(b) February 27, 1944.
(c) June 2, 1975.
(d) August 16, 1962.

7. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?
(a) Don Pedro Reservoir.
(b) Shasta Lake.
(c) Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
(d) Buena Vista Lake.

8. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?
(a) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(b) Paul Sears.
(c) Emil Haury.
(d) N.H. Darton.

9. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?
(a) 24,481.
(b) 124,975.
(c) 79,844.
(d) 267,532.

10. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?
(a) Bill Warne.
(b) Robert Caro.
(c) Francis G. Newlands.
(d) Rita Singer.

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

12. The author states in Chapter Ten that agriculture uses what percent of all the water in California?
(a) 45%.
(b) 81%.
(c) 62%.
(d) 22%.

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

14. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Bill Warne.

15. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?

2. When did the American Revolutionary War end?

3. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?

5. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?

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