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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Terrace Plateaus not have?
(a) Buttes.
(b) Mesas.
(c) Canyons.
(d) Volcanos.

2. Where is the source of the Gila River?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Utah.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Colorado.

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

4. What was lost in the wreck in the Canyon of Lodore?
(a) Sextons.
(b) Thermometers.
(c) Barometers.
(d) Ammunition.

5. What is the cause of the cliffs in the Terrace Plateaus?
(a) Erosion.
(b) Faults.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A glacier.

6. How many rivers flow through the Pink Cliffs?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

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

8. What is the name of the highest of the volcanic mountains in Arizona?
(a) San Francisco Peak.
(b) Los Angeles Peak.
(c) Guadalajara Peak.
(d) Phoenix Peak.

9. What is the Bill Williams River also known as?
(a) The San Juan.
(b) The Rio Virgen.
(c) The Rio Grande.
(d) The Gila River.

10. Some of the rock displacements in Chapter IV are flexures instead of ______.
(a) Rock slides.
(b) Carvings.
(c) Breaks.
(d) Fractures.

11. What did Powell find in the Indian dwellings?
(a) Pottery pieces.
(b) Baskets.
(c) Bones.
(d) Tools.

12. What were the dwellings of the Ute known as?
(a) Teepees.
(b) Rancherias.
(c) Casitas.
(d) Casas.

13. On the first day of the journey down the Colorado, what did the crew lose?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Flour.
(c) Rifles.
(d) Oars.

14. What is the height of the escarpment?
(a) 5,000 feet.
(b) 4,000 feet.
(c) 2,000 feet.
(d) 100 feet.

15. What color were the cliffs Powell explored on May 31st?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Powell compared the Terrace Plateaus to what?

2. How many miles were covered between Green River City and Flaming Gorge?

3. How long is the Canyon of Lodore?

4. The northeast side of the Little Colorado can be described as _______.

5. Besides Powell, how many men went on the journey down the Colorado?

(see the answer keys)

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