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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?
(a) Increase the number of reservoirs.
(b) Decrease farmland.
(c) Increase farmland.
(d) Increase the number of outlets.

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

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

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

5. Which two things did river height depend on?
(a) Speed and depth of the water.
(b) The volume and direction of the water.
(c) Volume and speed of the water.
(d) Volume and temperature of the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What helped Leroy Percy lose a lot of his political influence outside of the Delta area?

4. What happened in the Mississippi region between 1884-1889?

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

(see the answer key)

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