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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 52.
(b) 18.
(c) 71.
(d) 25.

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

4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1959.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 Sacramento.
(c) The Trinity.
(d) The Tuolumne.

11. What is the title of Chapter Six?
(a) “Dominy.”
(b) “Things Fall Apart.”
(c) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”
(d) “Rivals in Crime.”

12. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) E. O. Wattis.
(b) Paul Sears.
(c) Mike Strauss.
(d) Bill Warne.

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

14. 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) 1937.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1963.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?

2. 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?

3. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?

4. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

5. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?

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