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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 & 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 12.
(b) 39.
(c) 24.
(d) 3.

2. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) C.W. Hollister.
(b) James Marshall.
(c) Emil Haury.
(d) Floyd Dominy.

3. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 75,000.

4. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?
(a) 134 years.
(b) 328 years.
(c) 212 years.
(d) 56 years.

5. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?
(a) Hohokam.
(b) Bahmona.
(c) Brenula.
(d) Trincala.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Reclamation Act established?

2. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?

3. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

4. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?

5. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

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