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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. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

2. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?
(a) Rita Singer.
(b) Bill Warne.
(c) Francis G. Newlands.
(d) Robert Caro.

3. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) Paul Sears.
(b) Mike Strauss.
(c) Bill Warne.
(d) E. O. Wattis.

4. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?
(a) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(b) Lloyd Tevis.
(c) Robert Caro.
(d) Henry J. Kaiser.

5. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
(a) Six Companies, Inc.
(b) Three Companies, Inc.
(c) Nine Companies, Inc.
(d) Four Companies, Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?

2. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?

3. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1940?

4. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused a change for California’s economy in the 1920s?

2. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?

3. How does the author describe Floyd Elgin Dominy? When and where did he begin his career?

4. How does the author compare both the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and their faults in the book?

5. What impressions did Floyd Elgin Dominy make on the members of the Bureau of Reclamation? When was his breakthrough there?

6. What project does the author describe as symbolic of California’s wealth in Chapter Ten?

7. How does the author describe the Hohokam’s efforts at irrigation in Chapter Eight?

8. How does the author describe the assets of the members of the Hohokam culture in Chapter Eight?

9. How does the author describe the principle limiting factor in Californian water supply currently in Chapter Ten?

10. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?

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