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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Harry Chandler born?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1918.
2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 48,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 27,000.
(d) 35,000.
3. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1980.
4. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Kansas City.
5. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?
(a) March to July.
(b) May to September.
(c) November to March.
(d) August to December.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?
3. In 1930, the American West had a population of how many people?
4. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?
5. When was Marc Reisner born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What actions did William Mulholland take in order to solve the water problems in Los Angeles?
2. What initially led to the struggles over the Colorado River?
3. How does the author describe the Colorado River in the beginning of Chapter Four?
4. What are the historical foci of Marc Reisner in writing Cadillac Desert?
5. What ideological dualism is implied by the title of Cadillac Desert?
6. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
7. How did William Mulholland’s character and career develop in his later years?
8. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?
9. What reaction did the public and lawmakers have to the advice of John Wesley Powell regarding settlement in the West? What was the result?
10. When did the perception of the American West as a desert begin to change? Who helped initiate this change?
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