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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(c) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(d) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.

2. 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”?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 6,000,000.

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

4. 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 Canadian Spur.
(b) The Rocky Mountains.
(c) The Continental Divide.
(d) The American Ridge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?

2. 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?

3. What is the title of Chapter Nine?

4. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?

5. What is the title of the book’s Introduction?

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