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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 52.
(c) 71.
(d) 25.

2. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1974.

3. When was Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1934.

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Mormon faith.
(b) The Christian Science faith.
(c) The Jewish faith.
(d) The Muslim faith.

5. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?
(a) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(b) The Tenneco Corporation.
(c) The DiGiorgio Company.
(d) Irvine Ranch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?

2. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?

3. Who was the deputy chief of planning for the Bureau of Reclamation in the mid-1960s?

4. Who wrote the authorized history titled Water for the West?

5. When did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out on horseback from Mexico with a couple of hundred men, driving into the uncharted North, according to the author in Chapter One?

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