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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. On what date did Franklin Roosevelt dedicate the Hoover Dam?

2. In what year did the Hohokam culture disappear?

3. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?

4. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?

5. The Central Arizona Project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of which year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author describe the conservation movement’s efforts in relation to the water-development interests in Chapter Seven?

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

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

7. What was Floyd Elgin Dominy’s position at the Board of Reclamation? How did he feel about his position?

8. Where and how did Floyd Elgin Dominy make enemies in his role at the Bureau of Reclamation?

9. What were B. B. Moeur’s feelings about the Colorado River Compact?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the explorations of the American West from 1540 through the 1800s. How did perceptions change of the West based upon these explorations?What role did Jefferson have in the exploration of the West? What were Lewis and Clark’s impressions of this rugged terrain?

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 Central Valley Project. When was it proposed and enacted? What did it entail? How was it related to the Bureau of Reclamation? How was the water to be diverted from the north in California to the south?

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