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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?
(a) 35.
(b) 225.
(c) 150.
(d) 80.

2. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1889.

3. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?
(a) Thirty Palms Resort.
(b) Mesa Verde Lodge.
(c) Desert Oasis Hotel and Spa.
(d) Bishop’s Lodge.

4. According to the author in the Introduction, “On the east side of the Sierra-Cascade crest, moisture drops immediately from as much as 150 inches of precipitation on the western slope to as little as” how many inches on the eastern slope?
(a) 22.
(b) 4.
(c) 38.
(d) 13.

5. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Translucent.
(b) Pellucid.
(c) Irradiate.
(d) Reflective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Mulholland born?

2. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?

3. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?

4. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

5. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?

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