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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Jewish faith.
(c) The Muslim faith.
(d) The Christian Science faith.

2. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1958.

3. 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) Trincala.
(d) Brenula.

4. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1807.

5. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “Chinatown.”
(b) “The Go-Go Years.”
(c) “A Country of Illusion.”
(d) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Mulholland born?

2. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?

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

4. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

5. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?

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