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

2. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1892.

3. When was Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1963.

4. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1865.

5. 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) Michael Robinson.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Jim Casey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

2. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?

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

4. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How was Cadillac Desert received upon its first publication?

9. What awards has Marc Reisner earned for his environmental and writing work?

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

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