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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. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1977.

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

3. What is the title of Chapter Six?
(a) “Things Fall Apart.”
(b) “Rivals in Crime.”
(c) “Dominy.”
(d) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”

4. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?
(a) Six-tenths of an inch.
(b) One-quarter of an inch.
(c) Two-thirds of an inch.
(d) Four-tenths of an inch.

5. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?

2. Where is Bijou Creek located?

3. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?

4. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1960?

5. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the political downfall of Floyd Elgin Dominy?

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

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

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

5. Who does the author describe as being absent at the dedication of the Hoover Dam in Chapter Eight?

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

7. How does the author describe the benefits of the Central Valley Project for American farmers in Chapter Ten?

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

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

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

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