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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) 1918.
(d) 1885.

2. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1879.

3. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Lisbon, Portugal.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Stockholm, Sweden.
(d) London, England.

4. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Akron, Ohio.
(b) Mount Morris, New York.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

5. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?
(a) The Great Acquisition.
(b) The Urban Water Hoard.
(c) The Aquatic Revolution.
(d) The California Water Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Bayano Dam built?

2. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?

3. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?

4. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?

5. Where was Marc Reisner born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did William Mulholland’s character and career develop in his later years?

7. What genre is Cadillac Desert? What does Marc Reisner reveal through his approach in the book?

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

9. What is significant about the movement toward revisionist history?

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

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