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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. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1965.

2. 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) 1965.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1977.

3. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?
(a) 1.9 million.
(b) 8.5 million.
(c) 2.8 million.
(d) 5.2 million.

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

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

2. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?

3. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?

4. On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” before a gathering of his peers in Davis, California, according to the author in Chapter Six?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the Gila River in its historic past described by the author?

3. Who was Michael Strauss? How is he described by the author?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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