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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1900.

2. Which three rivers continued to rise as their levees fail?
(a) White, Mississippi and Missouri.
(b) Arkansas, Colorado, and Missouri.
(c) Arknsas, Mississippi, and Colorado.
(d) Arkansas, White and Mississippi.

3. What happened in the Mississippi region between 1884-1889?
(a) Railroads developed quickly.
(b) The Hoover Dam was built.
(c) The first person traveled cross country.
(d) Someone drove a submarine down the Mississippi.

4. Why wasn't Humphrey's report accepted well in the United States?
(a) The Civil War was happening.
(b) The Americans didn't believe him.
(c) The report didn't make any sense.
(d) He didn't publish it in the United States.

5. What did Leroy Percy's speeches advocate?
(a) Equal rights for women in education and the workforce.
(b) The right for women to vote.
(c) To be able to keep slaves.
(d) Better treatment for blacks and education for black children..

Short Answer Questions

1. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?

2. During the 1900 a new demand surged in throughout the United States. What was that demand?

3. When was the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River?

4. Which two things did river height depend on?

5. Why did most levees fail?

(see the answer key)

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