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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1908.

2. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1943.

3. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.
(b) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.
(c) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(d) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Sierra Nevada.
(b) The Trinity Mountains.
(c) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(d) The Cascade Mountains.

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

1. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?

2. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

3. In 1962, there were how many megawatts of installed hydroelectric generating capacity in the United States?

4. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?

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