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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. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
2. The largest of the canals dug by the Hohokam was fifteen miles long and how many yards wide from bank to bank?
3. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?
4. In passing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Congress had implied that Arizona’s share was at least how many acre-feet?
5. The Hoover Dam is on the border between which two U.S. states?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author compare both the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and their faults in the book?
2. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?
3. How was the Central Valley Project different from other Reclamation projects, according to the author?
4. How does the author describe the conservation movement’s efforts in relation to the water-development interests in Chapter Seven?
5. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?
6. How is the Gila River in its historic past described by the author?
7. How does the author describe the principle limiting factor in Californian water supply currently in Chapter Ten?
8. What project does the author describe as symbolic of California’s wealth in Chapter Ten?
9. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?
10. How is the Fontenelle Dam described by the author? Where is it located?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Major General William F. Cassidy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation. Why does the author consider these two bureaucracies to be “rivals in crime”? On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” and what did this speech entail?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss B. B. Moeur and the Boulder Canyon Project. Why did Moeur have lower opinions of the project? How did his constituents feel about the projects?How did these opinions prove to be right or wrong in the end?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the impact of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trading Company in the settlement of the West. When was the company developed? What furs were the trappers seeking in crossing over the Mississippi? What environmental impact did they have there?
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