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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. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
2. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?
3. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?
4. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?
5. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Floyd Elgin Dominy arrive at the Bureau of Reclamation? What were his assets there?
2. How does the author describe the assets of the members of the Hohokam culture in Chapter Eight?
3. What misconception about California’s climate does the author describe in the beginning of Chapter Ten?
4. How does the author describe the benefits of the Central Valley Project for American farmers in Chapter Ten?
5. What impressions did Floyd Elgin Dominy make on the members of the Bureau of Reclamation? When was his breakthrough there?
6. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?
7. Who were the members of the Hohokam culture? When did they thrive and disappear?
8. What led to the political downfall of Floyd Elgin Dominy?
9. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?
10. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?
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
Discuss Major General William F. Cassidy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation. Why does the author consider these two bureaucracies to be “rivals in crime”? On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” and what did this speech entail?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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