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

2. How many major dams does the author say California has in the Introduction?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 50.
(c) 560.
(d) 240.

3. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Salmon River.
(b) The Snake River.
(c) The Owyhee River.
(d) The Yellowstone River.

4. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?
(a) Walter Prescott Webb.
(b) Harry Morrison.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Cordell Hull.

5. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 60 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 9 million.
(d) 25 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?

3. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?

4. In what year did Marc Reisner die?

5. Where was John Wesley Powell born?

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