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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. 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.

2. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?
(a) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(b) Irvine Ranch.
(c) The DiGiorgio Company.
(d) The Tenneco Corporation.

3. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Davis Lodge.
(b) The Richardson Motor Lodge.
(c) The Bellingham Hotel.
(d) The Dillard Motor Hotel.

4. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Dartmouth College.
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Princeton University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

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

3. What is the title of Chapter Nine?

4. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?

5. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How was the Central Valley Project different from other Reclamation projects, according to the author?

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

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

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

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