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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, From Green River City To Flaming Gorge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Colorado River forms a natural boundary between which two states?
(a) Nevada and Utah.
(b) Califonria and Nevada.
(c) California and Arizona.
(d) Utah and Arizona.

2. When Powell began his journey down the Colorado, how long did they bring rations for?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 15 months.
(c) 12 months.
(d) 10 months.

3. Fill in the following from Chapter II: "The Navajos are ____________ in this country."
(a) Visitors.
(b) Intruders.
(c) Citizens.
(d) Natives.

4. What did the men find near Henry's Fork?
(a) A cache of instruments.
(b) A tribe of Indians.
(c) An impassable sandbar.
(d) A flock of sheep.

5. The Mogollon Escarpment separates the low desert regions from the ______.
(a) Upper plateau.
(b) Lower plateau.
(c) Northern tributary.
(d) Pacific Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device needed to be repaired on May 27th?

2. Which border of the Plateau Province is Castle Valley on?

3. What feeds the Colorado in the high region during the summer months?

4. Where is the source of the Gila River?

5. The Terrace Plateaus are a group of ______.

(see the answer key)

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