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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. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”
(b) “The Go-Go Years.”
(c) “Chinatown.”
(d) “A Country of Illusion.”

2. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1977.

3. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1934.

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

5. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?

3. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?

4. Where is Bijou Creek located?

5. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marc Reisner describe the winter of 1861-1862 for Californians in Chapter Ten?

2. Who does the author describe as being absent at the dedication of the Hoover Dam in Chapter Eight?

3. How was the Central Valley Project different from other Reclamation projects, according to the author?

4. How is the Fontenelle Dam described by the author? Where is it located?

5. What project does the author describe as symbolic of California’s wealth in Chapter Ten?

6. Who were the members of the Hohokam culture? When did they thrive and disappear?

7. What misconception about California’s climate does the author describe in the beginning of Chapter Ten?

8. How does the author describe the Hohokam’s efforts at irrigation in Chapter Eight?

9. How is the Gila River in its historic past described by the author?

10. How does the author describe Floyd Elgin Dominy? When and where did he begin his career?

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