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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 800.

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

4. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1933.

5. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Bakersfield, California.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Wesley Powell born?

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. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?

4. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

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