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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
(a) June 6, 1928.
(b) December 4, 1942.
(c) September 30, 1935.
(d) April 25, 1907.

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

4. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1944.

5. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1904.

6. What is the title of Chapter Nine?
(a) “The Red Queen.”
(b) “A Country of Illusion.”
(c) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(d) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”

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

8. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?
(a) George Chaffey.
(b) Ray Roberts.
(c) Stewart Udall.
(d) Lloyd Tevis.

9. 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?
(a) 124,975.
(b) 79,844.
(c) 267,532.
(d) 24,481.

10. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1968.

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

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

13. What is the motto of the Corps of Engineers?
(a) “Strength through Infrastructure.”
(b) “Our Way or the Highway.”
(c) “Building Tomorrow Today.”
(d) “Rearranging Nature.”

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

15. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Six?

2. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?

3. Who wrote the archeological record titled Snaketown?

4. 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?

5. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?

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