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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 were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(b) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.
(c) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.
(d) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.

2. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?
(a) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.

3. At what swank resort outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, did the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact take place?
(a) Thirty Palms Resort.
(b) Desert Oasis Hotel and Spa.
(c) Mesa Verde Lodge.
(d) Bishop’s Lodge.

4. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The Sierra Club.
(b) The Natural Resources Defense Council.
(c) The World Wildlife Fund.
(d) The Nature Conservancy.

5. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?

2. 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?

3. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

5. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the Hoover Dam constructed? Where is it located?

2. What ideological dualism is implied by the title of Cadillac Desert?

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

4. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?

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

6. How have new historians of the American West spent their focus differently than the traditionalists?

7. Describe the author of the book. What relevant professional experience does Reisner have to ecology?

8. What is significant about the movement toward revisionist history?

9. What publication does the author describe which was written by John Wesley Powell?

10. How was Cadillac Desert received upon its first publication?

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