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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?
(a) Multiple levees continue to fail.
(b) The Mississippi River gets longer.
(c) A waterfall develops at the bottom of the Mississippi.
(d) Crevases widen.

2. Why did President Coolidge hire Herbert Hoover?
(a) To organize new laws.
(b) To organize rescue and relief efforts.
(c) To fix the corruption in the Delta area.
(d) To design new levee systems.

3. How does Hoover manage to import boats to the area?
(a) He paid people large amounts of money to borrow their boats.
(b) He bought new ones to send in the area.
(c) He used the help of the Red Cross.
(d) He ordered the Coast Guard to go into the area.

4. As the floods continued, what did 30,000 people decide to do?
(a) Stayed in their homes.
(b) Evacuated the Delta area.
(c) Built taller houses.
(d) Found a local evauation area.

5. What do Simpson and the others do to find a solution to the compensation problem?
(a) They fire Butler.
(b) They donate the money from the City of New Orleans.
(c) They try to raise more money.
(d) They have public and private talks with Butler.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Eads assist in the Civil War?

2. What did Eads continue to do for a living in St. Louis after his family moved on?

3. Butler continues to make promises to the southern parishes but what are his intentions?

4. What did Leroy Percy's speeches advocate?

5. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?

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