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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Dartmouth College.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

3. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Cordell Hull.
(b) Ken Maddy.
(c) Harry Morrison.
(d) Ray Roberts.

4. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?
(a) 160 million.
(b) 765 million.
(c) 355 million.
(d) 55 million.

5. In 1952, when Los Angeles built a second battery of pumps at the head of its aqueduct, California’s diversion climbed toward how many acre-feet?
(a) 2.8 million.
(b) 5.3 million.
(c) 12.5 million.
(d) 8.2 million.

6. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser.
(b) Robert Caro.
(c) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(d) Lloyd Tevis.

7. What was the population of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1940?
(a) 155,000.
(b) 34,000.
(c) 92,000.
(d) 65,000.

8. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $8 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $1 million.

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

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

11. 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 Kern.
(b) The Trinity.
(c) The Tuolumne.
(d) The Sacramento.

12. What important figure refused to attend the dedication of the Hoover Dam?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser.
(b) B.B. Moeur.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

13. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1969.

14. The author states in Chapter Ten that agriculture uses what percent of all the water in California?
(a) 45%.
(b) 81%.
(c) 62%.
(d) 22%.

15. The author describes a restaurant at which hotel in Clayton, Georgia, in the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Dillard Motor Hotel.
(b) The Richardson Motor Lodge.
(c) The Bellingham Hotel.
(d) The Davis Lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the Corps of Engineers?

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

3. The winning bid to build the Hoover Dam was submitted by a consortium called what?

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?

5. The author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?

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