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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 the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?
(a) The weakness of the government.
(b) The failure of the levee system.
(c) The strength of the people.
(d) The strength of the levee system.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did most levees fail?

2. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?

3. Which three rivers continued to rise as their levees fail?

4. How did Humphrey feel about Ellet's suggestions about the river?

5. In 1850, what were the Humphreys and Charles Ellet Jr. competing for?

(see the answer key)

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