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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 legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1943.

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

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

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

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

7. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) B.B. Moeur.

8. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “The Go-Go Years.”
(b) “Chinatown.”
(c) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

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

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

11. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

13. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $8 million.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $5 million.

14. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1977.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Nine?

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

3. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?

4. 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?

5. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

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