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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?
(a) Redding, California.
(b) Truckee, California.
(c) Fresno, California.
(d) Oakland, California.

2. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Stockholm, Sweden.
(b) London, England.
(c) Lisbon, Portugal.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

3. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Trinity Mountains.
(b) The Cascade Mountains.
(c) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

4. The California Aqueduct begins at what location?
(a) Shasta Dam
(b) New Bullards Bar Dam.
(c) Folsom Dam.
(d) Oroville Dam.

5. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Kansas City.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

3. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?

4. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

5. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?

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