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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 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?
(a) 25.
(b) 71.
(c) 18.
(d) 52.

2. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?
(a) Irvine Ranch.
(b) The Tenneco Corporation.
(c) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(d) The DiGiorgio Company.

3. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1983.

4. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?
(a) 11.
(b) 35.
(c) 23.
(d) 4.

5. According to the author, “[Ronald] Reagan, as a westerner, should have been a friend of dams, but he was growing more conservative by the hour, and true conservatives tend to dislike” what?
(a) “Endless spending.”
(b) “Impacting nature.”
(c) “Great public works.”
(d) “More taxes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?

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

3. In what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?

4. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?

5. In what year was the Corps of Engineers officially christened with its current name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?

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

3. How is the Fontenelle Dam described by the author? Where is it located?

4. How does Marc Reisner describe the winter of 1861-1862 for Californians in Chapter Ten?

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

6. What caused the disappearance of the members of the Hohokam civilization?

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

8. Who were the members of the Hohokam culture? When did they thrive and disappear?

9. When did Floyd Elgin Dominy arrive at the Bureau of Reclamation? What were his assets there?

10. How does the author describe the conservation movement’s efforts in relation to the water-development interests in Chapter Seven?

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