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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On average, how many people are the refugee camps designed to hold?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

3. When was the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1543.
(d) 1643.

4. What happened when Hoover goes to inspect the levee south of New Orleans?
(a) He got caught in a storm.
(b) His boat was shot at.
(c) The levee broke.
(d) He almost drowned.

5. What did W.A. Percy institute in the Delta area?
(a) Sharecropping and a better treatment of blacks.
(b) A new irrigation system.
(c) A new fertilizer.
(d) Mechanical plows.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Congress create in response to the flooding in Mississippi?

3. Which two things did river height depend on?

4. What was unique about the crevasse at Mounds Landing?

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

(see the answer key)

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