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

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

3. How did Humphrey feel about Ellet's suggestions about the river?
(a) Humphrey was nervous about the idea.
(b) Humphrey was excited about the idea.
(c) Humphrey thought it was an awful idea.
(d) Humphrey took it as a personal insult.

4. What did Congress create in response to the flooding in Mississippi?
(a) The U.S. Levee Commission.
(b) A plan to create walls along the river.
(c) A plan to reroute the river.
(d) The Hoover Dam.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. With whom did Leroy Percy form a relationship that benefited him greatly in the 1900's?

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