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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?
2. Where was Marc Reisner born?
3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?
4. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
5. When was Harry Chandler born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ideological dualism is implied by the title of Cadillac Desert?
2. What did Arizona do in response to California’s challenge for the Colorado River?
3. How did William Mulholland’s character and career develop in his later years?
4. How does the author of Cadillac Desert describe the bureaucratic changes during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration?
5. What impressions did the first Europeans to discover the American West have of the environment?
6. When did the perception of the American West as a desert begin to change? Who helped initiate this change?
7. How was Cadillac Desert received upon its first publication?
8. Who was General John Wesley Powell? How does the author describe him?
9. What is significant about the movement toward revisionist history?
10. Who was William Mulholland? Why did he come to Los Angeles?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the life and beliefs of Brigham Young. Why were the Mormons persecuted in the East for their beliefs? What made them choose to move to the West?What was this region like at the time of the Mormon settlement? How did they change it?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the themes of ideology and hypocrisy as illustrated in Cadillac Desert. In the author’s point of view, how did political leaning have sway on environmental depletion? How does the theme of the American Dream relate to these concepts?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the impact of damming in the American South. Why did the South construct as many dams as it did? How do these dams differ from those in California and the West? What has been their impact on the environment?
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