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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the levee camp become a slave camp?
(a) The blacks are required to go to work and fix the levees.
(b) The camps are disgustingly dirty.
(c) All the people there are treated miserably.
(d) They don't let any of the people leave the camp.

2. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?
(a) Crevases widen.
(b) The Mississippi River gets longer.
(c) A waterfall develops at the bottom of the Mississippi.
(d) Multiple levees continue to fail.

3. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?
(a) He was voted in by the people.
(b) No one else wanted it.
(c) A senator died and he won a special election.
(d) The seat was left to him in the dead senator's will.

4. What was unique about the crevasse at Mounds Landing?
(a) It was the largest along the Mississippi.
(b) It was the only one on the Northern Mississippi.
(c) It was the only one along the Mississippi.
(d) It was the smallest along the Mississippi.

5. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?
(a) Increase the number of reservoirs.
(b) Increase the number of outlets.
(c) Increase farmland.
(d) Decrease farmland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a widespread problem in St. Bernard and Plaquemines?

2. What has Coolidge done for the flooded areas in 1927?

3. As floodwaters raged, what was happening to the crevasse at Mounds Landing?

4. As much of the Delta area was flooding, why did Greenville remain hopeful?

5. Why did most levees fail?

(see the answer key)

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