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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. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.

2. Where was Harry Chandler born?
(a) Landaff, New Hampshire.
(b) Akron, Ohio.
(c) Marquette, Michigan.
(d) Arco, Idaho.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 39.
(b) 24.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

4. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Pellucid.
(b) Irradiate.
(c) Translucent.
(d) Reflective.

5. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

2. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?

3. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

4. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was William Mulholland? Why did he come to Los Angeles?

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

3. How does the author describe Los Angeles’s power in its struggle for the Colorado River in Chapter Four?

4. What publication does the author describe which was written by John Wesley Powell?

5. What actions did Franklin D. Roosevelt take following the Dust Bowl in regard to water projects?

6. What ideological dualism is implied by the title of Cadillac Desert?

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

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

9. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?

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

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