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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?
(a) Increase the number of outlets.
(b) Decrease farmland.
(c) Increase the number of reservoirs.
(d) Increase farmland.
2. What has Coolidge done for the flooded areas in 1927?
(a) He's visited them.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He has designed a fundraisier to raise money for them.
(d) He has donated money.
3. When was the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1543.
(b) 1643.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1882.
4. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?
(a) The channel is 16 feet deep with no sandbar.
(b) The channel is 16 feet deep but a sandbar still exists.
(c) The channel did not get any deeper.
(d) The channel is only 14 feet deep and the sandbar is still there.
5. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1879.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens in June of 1927?
2. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?
3. Prior to Thompson's plan being implemented, what happened to the refugees south of the levee?
4. What makes Hoover a hero in 1927?
5. What happened the day after Thompson's plan is implemented?
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