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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 & 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Six?
(a) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”
(b) “Things Fall Apart.”
(c) “Dominy.”
(d) “Rivals in Crime.”

2. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1903.

3. 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?
(a) C.W. Hollister’s.
(b) Henry J. Kaiser’s.
(c) James Marshall’s.
(d) Jedediah Smith’s.

4. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?
(a) 80 million.
(b) 950 million.
(c) 300 million.
(d) 2 billion.

5. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) The Rocky Mountains.
(b) The Continental Divide.
(c) The Canadian Spur.
(d) The American Ridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

3. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?

4. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?

5. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?

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