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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 motto of the Corps of Engineers?
(a) “Building Tomorrow Today.”
(b) “Strength through Infrastructure.”
(c) “Rearranging Nature.”
(d) “Our Way or the Highway.”

2. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1959.

3. 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) 1919.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1945.

4. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?
(a) Four-tenths of an inch.
(b) Two-thirds of an inch.
(c) One-quarter of an inch.
(d) Six-tenths of an inch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?

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

3. In January of 1862, San Francisco recorded how many inches of rain?

4. In what year was the legislation on the Hoover Dam passed?

5. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the political downfall of Floyd Elgin Dominy?

2. Who was Michael Strauss? How is he described by the author?

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

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

5. When did Floyd Elgin Dominy arrive at the Bureau of Reclamation? What were his assets there?

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

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

8. How does the author describe the assets of the members of the Hohokam culture in Chapter Eight?

9. How does the author compare both the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and their faults in the book?

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

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