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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the patrons of the Boston Club?
(a) The blue collar workers.
(b) Nearly all the bank presidents in New Orleans.
(c) The blacks.
(d) The farmers.

2. What controversial issue did Eads propose that was authorized in 1867?
(a) Constuction of a steamboat.
(b) Construction of a plane.
(c) A bridge over the Mississippi.
(d) A railroad across the state of Mississippi.

3. As floodwaters raged, what was happening to the crevasse at Mounds Landing?
(a) It quickly widened.
(b) It got smaller.
(c) It got deeper.
(d) It broke completely open.

4. As the levees in other cities are failing, why would New Orleans "saboteurs" attempt to dynamite the levees by St. Bernard Parish?
(a) It would relieve the water pressure on the New Orleans system.
(b) They had enemies in that city.
(c) To help the economy of St. Bernard Parish.
(d) The levee was broken.

5. What was unique about the crevasse at Mounds Landing?
(a) It was the largest along the Mississippi.
(b) It was the only one on the Northern Mississippi.
(c) It was the smallest along the Mississippi.
(d) It was the only one along the Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Mississippi River Commission decide their failure was in the 1912 and 1913 floods?

2. What was the reputation of the Boston Club?

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

4. If Thompson's plan is implemented, what will happen to Plaquemines Parish and St. Bernard?

5. Why did President Coolidge hire Herbert Hoover?

(see the answer key)

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