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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 | Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. During the 1900 a new demand surged in throughout the United States. What was that demand?
(a) Spices.
(b) Gold.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Silk.

4. What did the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?
(a) The failure of the levee system.
(b) The strength of the people.
(c) The weakness of the government.
(d) The strength of the levee system.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the United States does the Mississippi River drain?

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

3. What was "changing the fabric of society" in the Delta region during WWI?

4. What two things did Humphrey unsuccessfully attempt to do to change the mouth of the Mississippi River?

5. In 1926, the Klan began break apart. Why did this happen?

(see the answer key)

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