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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the American Revolutionary War end?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1945.

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

4. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 48,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 27,000.

5. 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?
(a) Bakersfield, California.
(b) Reno, Nevada.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?

2. 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?

3. The author described the Gross National Product of California to be what in Chapter Ten?

4. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?

5. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?

(see the answer key)

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