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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 Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?
(a) Republican.
(b) Patrician.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Libertarian.

2. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Ogden.
(b) Provo.
(c) Salt Lake City.
(d) Moab.

3. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Brooks Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Wasatch Range.
(d) The Cascade Range.

4. 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) James Marshall.
(b) Floyd Dominy.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) Emil Haury.

5. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Lichens.
(c) Trees.
(d) Mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

3. Where was John Wesley Powell born?

4. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?

5. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?

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