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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was LeRoy Percy's problem with the Klan?
(a) They boycotted all his propositions.
(b) They were in "conflict" with the life he desired.
(c) They were the reason he couldn't become president.
(d) They threatened his life.

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

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

5. What kept the Delta area underdeveloped during WWI?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) A lack of manpower.
(c) War with the Native Americans.
(d) A busy hurricane season.

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

7. Who were the residents in Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes?
(a) Fishermen, trappers and bootleggers.
(b) Mainly the blacks.
(c) Fishermen, bankers, and politicians.
(d) Bankers, politicians and socialites.

8. How did Coolidge not get personally involved in the flooding?
(a) He ignored the fact that there was a problem.
(b) He hired Hoover.
(c) He hired Percy to take care of it.
(d) He let the governor handle it.

9. What did Congress create in response to the flooding in Mississippi?
(a) The Hoover Dam.
(b) The U.S. Levee Commission.
(c) A plan to reroute the river.
(d) A plan to create walls along the river.

10. What was the basis of political power and structure of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes?
(a) Businesses.
(b) Trade.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Making and selling illegal alcohol.

11. What did spring flooding in the upper Mississippi River cause?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Property destruction, deaths and devastation.
(c) A great fishing season.
(d) A richer soil for planting crops.

12. What was James Thompson always seeking?
(a) Acceptance by the society and club members of New Orleans.
(b) A job.
(c) For ways to make more money.
(d) People to steal from.

13. During the 19th century, what was the attitude about the Mississippi River?
(a) It was a raging machine.
(b) That if you understood the laws of nature, the river could be understood.
(c) People were just confused by the river.
(d) It was harmless.

14. With whom did Leroy Percy form a relationship that benefited him greatly in the 1900's?
(a) Eads.
(b) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) The leader of the KKK.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like in the Prologue as the guests of the social party head home?

2. What ongoing problem existed at the mouth of the Mississippi River that prohibited shipping?

3. What did Hoover do during WWI?

4. What did Leroy Percy's speeches advocate?

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

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