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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. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?

2. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

3. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?

4. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?

5. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the Hohokam’s efforts at irrigation in Chapter Eight?

2. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?

3. What led to the political downfall of Floyd Elgin Dominy?

4. What project does the author describe as symbolic of California’s wealth in Chapter Ten?

5. How does the author compare both the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and their faults in the book?

6. How was the Central Valley Project different from other Reclamation projects, according to the author?

7. What caused a change for California’s economy in the 1920s?

8. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?

9. How does the author describe Floyd Elgin Dominy? When and where did he begin his career?

10. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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