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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) Salt Lake City.
(b) Moab.
(c) Ogden.
(d) Provo.

2. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) Marietta, Ohio.
(b) Ely, Minnesota.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Green Bay, Wisconsin.

3. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $8 million.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $3 million.

4. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 50%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

5. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?
(a) Redding, California.
(b) Fresno, California.
(c) Truckee, California.
(d) Oakland, California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Nine?

2. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?

3. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?

5. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?

(see the answer key)

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