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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 what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1937.
2. In which year did Jimmy Carter begin his term as the 39th President of the United States?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1969.
3. In what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1917.
4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1942.
5. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) B.B. Moeur.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?
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. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?
4. 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?
5. What is the title of Chapter Nine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What led to the political downfall of Floyd Elgin Dominy?
2. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?
3. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?
4. How does the author describe the principle limiting factor in Californian water supply currently in Chapter Ten?
5. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?
6. How does the author describe the conservation movement’s efforts in relation to the water-development interests in Chapter Seven?
7. What impressions did Floyd Elgin Dominy make on the members of the Bureau of Reclamation? When was his breakthrough there?
8. How does Marc Reisner describe the winter of 1861-1862 for Californians in Chapter Ten?
9. What project does the author describe as symbolic of California’s wealth in Chapter Ten?
10. How does the author compare both the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and their faults in the book?
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