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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?
(a) May to September.
(b) March to July.
(c) August to December.
(d) November to March.

2. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Bing cherries.
(b) Valencia oranges.
(c) Red Delicious apples.
(d) Himalayan blackberries.

3. John Wesley Powell figured that if you evenly distributed all of the surface water flowing between the Columbia River and the Gulf of Mexico, you would have what?
(a) Astounding yields on farms covering a quarter of the country.
(b) A desert almost indistinguishable from what is there today.
(c) Lush green pastures as far as the eye can see.
(d) The most productive agricultural system the world has ever seen.

4. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1935.

5. When was Harry Chandler born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?

2. 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?

3. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

4. 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”?

5. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?

(see the answer key)

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