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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Humphrey feel about Ellet's suggestions about the river?
(a) Humphrey took it as a personal insult.
(b) Humphrey was nervous about the idea.
(c) Humphrey thought it was an awful idea.
(d) Humphrey was excited about the idea.

2. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?
(a) A senator died and he won a special election.
(b) He was voted in by the people.
(c) No one else wanted it.
(d) The seat was left to him in the dead senator's will.

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

4. What was Eads' proposition to change the mouth of the Mississippi River?
(a) Building dams.
(b) A series of jetties.
(c) Changing the course of the river.
(d) Making a series of canals.

5. Why wasn't Humphrey's report accepted well in the United States?
(a) The Americans didn't believe him.
(b) The report didn't make any sense.
(c) The Civil War was happening.
(d) He didn't publish it in the United States.

6. In 1926, the Klan began break apart. Why did this happen?
(a) The leaders were being "nationally convicted" for major crimes.
(b) They were being prejudiced against all over the country.
(c) There wasn't enough money to keep them together.
(d) No one wanted to join them.

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

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

9. Prior to Thompson's plan being implemented, what happened to the refugees south of the levee?
(a) They evacuated.
(b) They protested.
(c) They built a new levee.
(d) They refused to leave.

10. In 1850, what were the Humphreys and Charles Ellet Jr. competing for?
(a) A trip down the Mississippi River.
(b) The girl they wanted to marry.
(c) Being the mayor of New Orleans.
(d) The job to survey the Mississippi River.

11. Why were veterans enlisted during the time the levees were being fixed?
(a) To boost the economy.
(b) To prevent sabotage.
(c) To train them for another tour of war.
(d) To protect the area from the Native Americans.

12. What happened the day after Thompson's plan is implemented?
(a) A levee to the west of New Orleans breaks.
(b) The river level dropped.
(c) The rain stopped.
(d) New Orleans flooded regardless.

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

14. Which three rivers continued to rise as their levees fail?
(a) Arkansas, White and Mississippi.
(b) Arkansas, Colorado, and Missouri.
(c) White, Mississippi and Missouri.
(d) Arknsas, Mississippi, and Colorado.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose biography was told?

2. During the 19th century, what was the attitude about the Mississippi River?

3. What did St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes demand if Thompson's plan is implemented?

4. During the major storms that were occurring along the Mississippi River in 1927, what happens to the dam in Arkansas?

5. What was James Thompson always seeking?

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