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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Better treatment for blacks and education for black children..
(d) To be able to keep slaves.

2. River flow is measured in cubic feet per second (cfs). What happens as the cfs increases?
(a) A flood occurs.
(b) The river's depth increases.
(c) The direction of the river changes.
(d) The river's speed increases.

3. In 1850, what were the Humphreys and Charles Ellet Jr. competing for?
(a) The job to survey the Mississippi River.
(b) A trip down the Mississippi River.
(c) Being the mayor of New Orleans.
(d) The girl they wanted to marry.

4. 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.

5. How did waves effect the levees?
(a) They eroded it.
(b) Their force broke them.
(c) The waves didn't effect it at all.
(d) The waves made the levee stronger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?

3. When Humphrey returned from studying deltaic rivers, what did he do?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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