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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?
(a) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(b) The DiGiorgio Company.
(c) Irvine Ranch.
(d) The Tenneco Corporation.

3. 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 Davis Lodge.
(d) The Dillard Motor Hotel.

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

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

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

7. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?
(a) 5.2 million.
(b) 8.5 million.
(c) 1.9 million.
(d) 2.8 million.

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

9. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Trinity Mountains.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(d) The Cascade Mountains.

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

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. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Nebraska.

13. 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.

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

15. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?
(a) The Tenneco Corporation.
(b) Irvine Ranch.
(c) The DiGiorgio Company.
(d) Sierra Pacific Industries.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?

2. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?

3. What is the title of Chapter Six?

4. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?

5. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?

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