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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

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) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.

2. The 17.5-million-acre-foot yield that the Compact negotiators had ascribed to the Colorado River was based on about how many years of stream flow measurement, according to the author in Chapter Eight?
(a) 18.
(b) 71.
(c) 25.
(d) 52.

3. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1937.

4. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Owyhee River.
(b) The Yellowstone River.
(c) The Salmon River.
(d) The Snake River.

5. When was the Bayano Dam built?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?

2. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

3. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

4. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?

5. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?

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