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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
2. When was Harry Chandler born?
3. When was the Reclamation Act established?
4. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?
5. In what year was the Boulder Dam authorized and the All-American Canal on the condition that at least six of the seven states ratify the compact?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe Los Angeles’s power in its struggle for the Colorado River in Chapter Four?
2. How does the author describe the American West in Chapter One?
3. What publication does the author describe which was written by John Wesley Powell?
4. What did Arizona do in response to California’s challenge for the Colorado River?
5. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
6. Who was William Mulholland? Why did he come to Los Angeles?
7. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?
8. What ideological dualism is implied by the title of Cadillac Desert?
9. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?
10. What genre is Cadillac Desert? What does Marc Reisner reveal through his approach in the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss Harry Chandler and his role in the Owens River scam. What was Chandler’s relationship to Harrison Gray Otis?What were Chandler’s associations with Fred Eaton?How did Chandler gain wealth through the Owens River scam?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harold Ickes. What programs did Roosevelt initiate to resuscitate the economy in America during and after the Depression?What perception does the author have of F.D.R.? What were the positives and negatives of his Administration?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss Floyd Elgin Dominy. When and where was Dominy born? How is he characterized in the text? What opposing views can be found in written history?What were his aspirations within the Bureau of Reclamation?
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