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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the city in which the Hohokam lived and where downtown Phoenix is today?
(a) Palo Cedro.
(b) Pueblo Grande.
(c) Buena Vista.
(d) Mesa Verde.

6. According to the author, “[Ronald] Reagan, as a westerner, should have been a friend of dams, but he was growing more conservative by the hour, and true conservatives tend to dislike” what?
(a) “Great public works.”
(b) “Endless spending.”
(c) “Impacting nature.”
(d) “More taxes.”

7. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?
(a) N.H. Darton.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(d) Paul Sears.

8. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1974.

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

10. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?
(a) California and Nevada.
(b) Arizona and New Mexico.
(c) Arizona and Nevada.
(d) California and Arizona.

11. In 1952, when Los Angeles built a second battery of pumps at the head of its aqueduct, California’s diversion climbed toward how many acre-feet?
(a) 12.5 million.
(b) 8.2 million.
(c) 2.8 million.
(d) 5.3 million.

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

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

14. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Rita Singer.
(c) Francis G. Newlands.
(d) Bill Warne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?

2. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?

3. In what county is Phoenix, Arizona?

4. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?

5. The author states in Chapter Ten that agriculture uses what percent of all the water in California?

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