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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. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?
2. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?
3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
4. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
5. Where was William Mulholland born?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
2. How was Cadillac Desert received upon its first publication?
3. How does the author describe Los Angeles’s power in its struggle for the Colorado River in Chapter Four?
4. How does the author describe the Colorado River in the beginning of Chapter Four?
5. How have new historians of the American West spent their focus differently than the traditionalists?
6. How did William Mulholland’s character and career develop in his later years?
7. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?
8. What does the author write of the impressions from the Lewis and Clark expedition in the West in Chapter Two?
9. What reaction did the public and lawmakers have to the advice of John Wesley Powell regarding settlement in the West? What was the result?
10. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the explorations of the American West from 1540 through the 1800s. How did perceptions change of the West based upon these explorations?What role did Jefferson have in the exploration of the West? What were Lewis and Clark’s impressions of this rugged terrain?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the Reclamation Act and its impact on the environment of the American West. When was the Act introduced? Who supported it? Why?
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