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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the floods continued, what did 30,000 people decide to do?
(a) Evacuated the Delta area.
(b) Found a local evauation area.
(c) Built taller houses.
(d) Stayed in their homes.

2. As floodwaters raged, what was happening to the crevasse at Mounds Landing?
(a) It got deeper.
(b) It broke completely open.
(c) It quickly widened.
(d) It got smaller.

3. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?
(a) The channel did not get any deeper.
(b) The channel is 16 feet deep but a sandbar still exists.
(c) The channel is 16 feet deep with no sandbar.
(d) The channel is only 14 feet deep and the sandbar is still there.

4. What will eventually happen to the water released through the Mounds Landing crevasse?
(a) It will flow into the Colorado River.
(b) It will flow into the Arkansas River.
(c) It will continue to flood the area.
(d) It will flow back into the Mississippi River.

5. Prior to Thompson's plan being implemented, what happened to the refugees south of the levee?
(a) They built a new levee.
(b) They refused to leave.
(c) They protested.
(d) They evacuated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did W.A. Percy institute in the Delta area?

2. What did the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?

3. What are the refugee camps referred to at the time of the floods in the Delta?

4. Where did the Mississippi River Commission decide their failure was in the 1912 and 1913 floods?

5. How were the results of Thompson's plan being predicted?

(see the answer key)

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