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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In early 1927, what did many of the communities begin to do?
(a) Patrol their levees with armed guards.
(b) Repair their levees.
(c) Develop evacuation plans.
(d) Rebuild their levees to be stronger.

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

3. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?
(a) Increase farmland.
(b) Increase the number of reservoirs.
(c) Increase the number of outlets.
(d) Decrease farmland.

4. Who finally gave approval for Thompson to organize his plan when he arrives back to the Delta area?
(a) Coolidge.
(b) Governor Simpson.
(c) Percy.
(d) Hoover.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. As floodwaters raged, what was happening to the crevasse at Mounds Landing?

5. When Humphrey returned from studying deltaic rivers, what did he do?

(see the answer key)

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