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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 failure of the levee system.
(b) The strength of the levee system.
(c) The weakness of the government.
(d) The strength of the people.

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

3. What helped Leroy Percy lose a lot of his political influence outside of the Delta area?
(a) He wanted to free all slaves.
(b) He helped Vardaman get defeated for a seat in Senate.
(c) He enforced the need for slaves.
(d) He advocated for the rights of women.

4. With whom did Leroy Percy form a relationship that benefited him greatly in the 1900's?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Eads.
(c) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) The leader of the KKK.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?

2. Why wasn't Humphrey's report accepted well in the United States?

3. How did waves effect the levees?

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

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

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