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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 60 million.
(d) 9 million.

2. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Miami, Florida.
(c) Boise, Idaho.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) Silicon Valley.
(b) The San Joaquin Valley.
(c) Imperial Valley.
(d) The Sacramento Valley.

4. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) MapQuest.
(b) The Landsat Program.
(c) Google Maps.
(d) The SatNav Registry.

5. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Mormon faith.
(b) The Christian Science faith.
(c) The Muslim faith.
(d) The Jewish faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Wesley Powell born?

2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

3. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?

4. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?

5. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

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