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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Wasatch Range.
(b) The Brooks Range.
(c) The Cascade Range.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

2. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?
(a) 65%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 40%.

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

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) 56 years.
(c) 212 years.
(d) 328 years.

5. 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”?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 6,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many major dams does the author say California has in the Introduction?

3. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

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

5. When was John Wesley Powell born?

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