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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 | Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weather like in the Prologue as the guests of the social party head home?
(a) Stormy.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Foggy.
(d) Snowing.

2. How is the Mississippi River described?
(a) It is one of the smallest rivers in the world.
(b) It is a medium sized river.
(c) It no longer contains water.
(d) It is the longest river in the world.

3. What were the three basic methods that engineers have attempted to control the river?
(a) Levees, outlets, and cutoffs.
(b) Dams, outlets and cutoffs.
(c) Levees, outlets, and dams.
(d) Levees, dams, and cutoffs.

4. What did Eads continue to do for a living in St. Louis after his family moved on?
(a) He became an ironworker.
(b) He started building ships.
(c) He opened a salvage business.
(d) He ran a plantation.

5. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?
(a) The channel did not get any deeper.
(b) The channel is 16 feet deep with no sandbar.
(c) The channel is 16 feet deep but a sandbar still exists.
(d) The channel is only 14 feet deep and the sandbar is still there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the high river levels threaten in 1912?

2. What controversial issue did Eads propose that was authorized in 1867?

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

4. Who took control of Charles Percy's family affairs after he dies?

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

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