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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1941.

2. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?
(a) Monterrey.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Tijuana.
(d) Chihuahua.

3. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 25%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 40%.

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

5. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?
(a) Paul Sears.
(b) E. O. Wattis.
(c) Mike Strauss.
(d) Bill Warne.

6. Where was Harry S. Truman born?
(a) Medford, Oregon.
(b) Lamar, Missouri.
(c) Cody, Wyoming.
(d) Pueblo, Colorado.

7. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?
(a) September 30, 1935.
(b) June 6, 1928.
(c) December 4, 1942.
(d) April 25, 1907.

8. The Pine Flat Dam is located approximately twenty miles east of what city?
(a) Oakland, California.
(b) Fresno, California.
(c) Redding, California.
(d) Truckee, California.

9. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?
(a) 24,481.
(b) 267,532.
(c) 124,975.
(d) 79,844.

10. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?
(a) 1275.
(b) 1400.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1550.

11. The Central Arizona Project was envisioned by which U.S. Senator?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) Bill Warne.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

12. In which year did Secretary of State Cordell Hull formally promise Mexico the 1.5 million acre-feet that had been set-aside for it by the Colorado River Compact?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1929.

13. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1945.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?

2. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?

3. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?

4. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?

5. On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” before a gathering of his peers in Davis, California, according to the author in Chapter Six?

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