1. What is the title of Chapter Three?
(a) “Things Fall Apart.”
(b) “The Red Queen.”
(c) “First Causes.”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

2. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?
(a) The Tuolumne.
(b) The Trinity.
(c) The Kern.
(d) The Sacramento.

3. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Lichens.
(c) Trees.
(d) Ferns.

4. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?
(a) Patrician.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democrat.

5. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter Eight, “The first serious doubts about the 7.5-million-acre-foot figure were raised bywhat distinguished hydrologic engineer at a conference in Washington, D.C., in 1953?

2. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?

3. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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