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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did most levees fail?
(a) Poor designing.
(b) Tampering with the levees.
(c) Low quality materials.
(d) Water pressure.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the levees along the Mississippi different from levees in other places?

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

3. When small tunnels are formed beneath the levee a miniature geyser erupts. What is this mini geyser called?

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

5. Why were veterans enlisted during the time the levees were being fixed?

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