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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?
(a) Strategical.
(b) Ruthless and cold.
(c) Skittish and scared.
(d) Sympathetic.

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

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

4. When Humphrey returned from studying deltaic rivers, what did he do?
(a) Attacked Ellet's report.
(b) Built a railroad.
(c) Built a bridge.
(d) Traveled the Grand Canyon.

5. Where did the Mississippi River Commission decide their failure was in the 1912 and 1913 floods?
(a) Using only sandbags.
(b) A poor drainage system.
(c) Erosion.
(d) "Substandard" levee construction.

Short Answer Questions

1. River flow is measured in cubic feet per second (cfs). What happens as the cfs increases?

2. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?

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

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

5. Who took control of Charles Percy's family affairs after he dies?

(see the answer key)

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