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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?
(a) W. A. Bechtel.
(b) James Marshall.
(c) Wayne Wyatt.
(d) Henry J. Kaiser.

4. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?
(a) W. A. Bechtel.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) Harry Morrison.
(d) Jim Casey.

5. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Irradiate.
(b) Reflective.
(c) Translucent.
(d) Pellucid.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?

2. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?

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. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?

5. 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?

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