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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?
(a) Chinatown.
(b) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.
(c) Rivals in Crime.
(d) First Causes.

2. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?
(a) 37,342.
(b) 14,595.
(c) 112,564.
(d) 66,238.

3. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?
(a) 77.
(b) 2.
(c) 41.
(d) 24.

4. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Trinity.
(b) The Kern.
(c) The Sacramento.
(d) The Tuolumne.

5. When was the Bayano Dam built?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harry Chandler born?

2. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

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. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?

5. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

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