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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. Where was Harry Chandler born?
2. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?
3. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?
4. In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt take office as President of the United States?
5. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What initially led to the struggles over the Colorado River?
2. What reaction did the public and lawmakers have to the advice of John Wesley Powell regarding settlement in the West? What was the result?
3. What genre is Cadillac Desert? What does Marc Reisner reveal through his approach in the book?
4. What actions did William Mulholland take in order to solve the water problems in Los Angeles?
5. When did the perception of the American West as a desert begin to change? Who helped initiate this change?
6. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?
7. What are the historical foci of Marc Reisner in writing Cadillac Desert?
8. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
9. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?
10. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the Central Valley Project. When was it proposed and enacted? What did it entail? How was it related to the Bureau of Reclamation? How was the water to be diverted from the north in California to the south?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the author, Marc Reisner, and the concept and genre of historical revisionism. What is historical causation and how does it apply to revisionist writings? When was Marc Reisner director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council? What did this position entail?
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