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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state capital of Utah?
(a) Moab.
(b) Ogden.
(c) Provo.
(d) Salt Lake City.

2. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Stockholm, Sweden.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) London, England.
(d) Lisbon, Portugal.

3. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

4. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Brooks Range.
(b) The Wasatch Range.
(c) The Cascade Range.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

5. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Valencia oranges.
(b) Bing cherries.
(c) Himalayan blackberries.
(d) Red Delicious apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Harry Chandler born?

2. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?

3. What is the name given to the principal hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds which drain into the Pacific Ocean?

4. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

5. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the perception of the American West as a desert begin to change? Who helped initiate this change?

2. What are the historical foci of Marc Reisner in writing Cadillac Desert?

3. What initially led to the struggles over the Colorado River?

4. What did Arizona do in response to California’s challenge for the Colorado River?

5. What genre is Cadillac Desert? What does Marc Reisner reveal through his approach in the book?

6. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?

7. What happened to the populations of Nebraska and Kansas in 1890?

8. What does the author write of the impressions from the Lewis and Clark expedition in the West in Chapter Two?

9. What reaction did the public and lawmakers have to the advice of John Wesley Powell regarding settlement in the West? What was the result?

10. Who was William Mulholland? Why did he come to Los Angeles?

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