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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what county is Phoenix, Arizona?
(a) Apache County.
(b) Navajo County.
(c) Mohave County.
(d) Maricopa County.

2. 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) 1945.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1919.

3. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1931.

4. When did the American Revolutionary War end?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1945.

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

6. 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.

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

8. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1952.

9. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1958.

10. 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?
(a) 18.
(b) 52.
(c) 25.
(d) 71.

11. 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.

12. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Tijuana.
(c) Monterrey.
(d) Chihuahua.

13. 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) 1955.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1929.

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

15. 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?
(a) 2.8 million.
(b) 5.3 million.
(c) 12.5 million.
(d) 8.2 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?

2. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

3. What is the title of Chapter Six?

4. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?

5. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?

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