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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Bijou Creek located?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Washington.
(d) Colorado.

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

3. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 80 million.
(c) 950 million.
(d) 2 billion.

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

5. 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) Henry J. Kaiser.
(b) Raymond Hill.
(c) Herbert Grubb.
(d) Emil Haury.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 65%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

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

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

15. 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) August 16, 1962.
(b) February 27, 1944.
(c) June 2, 1975.
(d) September 22, 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Six?

2. What is the title of Chapter Nine?

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

4. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?

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

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