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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 William Mulholland born?
2. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?
3. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?
4. When was John Wesley Powell born?
5. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?
2. How does the author describe Los Angeles’s power in its struggle for the Colorado River in Chapter Four?
3. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?
4. What are the historical foci of Marc Reisner in writing Cadillac Desert?
5. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
6. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?
7. What actions did William Mulholland take in order to solve the water problems in Los Angeles?
8. Who was William Mulholland? Why did he come to Los Angeles?
9. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?
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
Discuss the impact of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trading Company in the settlement of the West. When was the company developed? What furs were the trappers seeking in crossing over the Mississippi? What environmental impact did they have there?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss Harrison Gray Otis. When and where was he born? What brought him to L.A.? How did Otis secure ownership of the Times and the Mirror? How much did each cost him?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss B. B. Moeur and the Boulder Canyon Project. Why did Moeur have lower opinions of the project? How did his constituents feel about the projects?How did these opinions prove to be right or wrong in the end?
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