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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 was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Henry J. Kaiser.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.

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

3. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?
(a) 11.
(b) 23.
(c) 35.
(d) 4.

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

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

6. 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) 79,844.
(c) 124,975.
(d) 267,532.

7. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1940?
(a) 65,000.
(b) 155,000.
(c) 34,000.
(d) 92,000.

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

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

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

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

12. The dedication ceremony of the Hoover Dam drew approximately how many people?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 18,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 6,000.

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

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

15. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1960?
(a) 439,000.
(b) 291,000.
(c) 750,000.
(d) 1,230,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county is Phoenix, Arizona?

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

3. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?

4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

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