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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 the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1979.

2. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?
(a) Michael Robinson.
(b) Jim Wright.
(c) Floyd Dominy.
(d) W. H. Wattis.

3. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?
(a) 65%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Muslim faith.
(b) The Jewish faith.
(c) The Mormon faith.
(d) The Christian Science faith.

5. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) Raymond Hill.
(c) Francis G. Newlands.
(d) Jim Casey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

2. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

3. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?

4. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

5. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What initially led to the struggles over the Colorado River?

2. How does the author describe the Colorado River in the beginning of Chapter Four?

3. What does the author write of the impressions from the Lewis and Clark expedition in the West in Chapter Two?

4. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?

5. What are the historical foci of Marc Reisner in writing Cadillac Desert?

6. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?

7. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?

8. Describe the author of the book. What relevant professional experience does Reisner have to ecology?

9. When did the perception of the American West as a desert begin to change? Who helped initiate this change?

10. Who won in the struggles over the Colorado River, according to the author in Chapter Four?

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