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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 & 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was Harry Chandler born?
(a) Arco, Idaho.
(b) Landaff, New Hampshire.
(c) Akron, Ohio.
(d) Marquette, Michigan.

4. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?
(a) Rivers.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Dams.
(d) Deserts.

5. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?
(a) Francis G. Newlands.
(b) Raymond Hill.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Jim Casey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?

2. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?

3. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

4. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?

5. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

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