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

2. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Skittish and scared.
(c) Ruthless and cold.
(d) Strategical.

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

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

5. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1870.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Leroy Percy's speeches advocate?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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