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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 wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?
(a) James Marshall.
(b) Jim Casey.
(c) Michael Robinson.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

2. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) 1362.
(b) 1539.
(c) 1474.
(d) 1297.

3. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1977.

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

5. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?
(a) First Causes.
(b) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.
(c) Chinatown.
(d) Rivals in Crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

2. What is the title of Chapter Three?

3. Where was Marc Reisner born?

4. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?

5. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the author describe the American West in Chapter One?

9. What did Arizona do in response to California’s challenge for the Colorado River?

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

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