Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Marc Reisner
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Marc Reisner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 48,000.
(c) 27,000.
(d) 35,000.

2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?
(a) Medford, Oregon.
(b) Lamar, Missouri.
(c) Cody, Wyoming.
(d) Pueblo, Colorado.

3. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?
(a) Francis G. Newlands.
(b) Robert Caro.
(c) Rita Singer.
(d) Bill Warne.

4. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?
(a) George Chaffey.
(b) Lloyd Tevis.
(c) Stewart Udall.
(d) Ray Roberts.

5. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) Robert Caro.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) James Marshall.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

2. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

3. What is the title of Chapter Three?

4. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?

5. Where is Bijou Creek located?

(see the answer key)

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