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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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 Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
(c) The Internal Revenue Service.
(d) The Corps of Engineers.

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

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

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

8. The author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

9. In what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1917.

10. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?
(a) 1625.
(b) 1400.
(c) 1275.
(d) 1550.

11. 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 Tuolumne.
(b) The Sacramento.
(c) The Kern.
(d) The Trinity.

12. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?
(a) B.B. Moeur.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

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

14. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
(a) Four Companies, Inc.
(b) Six Companies, Inc.
(c) Nine Companies, Inc.
(d) Three Companies, Inc.

15. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?
(a) 55 million.
(b) 160 million.
(c) 355 million.
(d) 765 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?

2. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

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

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