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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. When was Marc Reisner born?
2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
3. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?
4. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?
5. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did William Mulholland’s character and career develop in his later years?
2. How have new historians of the American West spent their focus differently than the traditionalists?
3. What did Arizona do in response to California’s challenge for the Colorado River?
4. How was Cadillac Desert received upon its first publication?
5. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?
6. What initially led to the struggles over the Colorado River?
7. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?
8. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?
9. How does the author describe the American West in Chapter One?
10. What awards has Marc Reisner earned for his environmental and writing work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the Colorado River and the Boulder Canyon Project. When was the project first proposed? How long did it take for its completion?How has the damming of the Colorado changed the environment around it?
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