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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1926, what prevented annual levee maintenance?
(a) No workers.
(b) Very high rivers.
(c) No materials.
(d) Very low rivers.

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

3. Whose biography was told?
(a) Coolidge.
(b) Will Percy.
(c) LeRoy Percy.
(d) Hoover.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. What was the weather like in the Prologue as the guests of the social party head home?
(a) Snowing.
(b) Foggy.
(c) Stormy.
(d) Sunny.

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

11. What did Thompson and others feel would damage the economy of New Orleans?
(a) The War.
(b) Inflation of goods.
(c) Flooding and information withheld from the public.
(d) The lack of jobs.

12. What two things did Humphrey unsuccessfully attempt to do to change the mouth of the Mississippi River?
(a) Creating a new river and a dam.
(b) Canals and dredges.
(c) Bridges and canals.
(d) Dredges and bridges.

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

14. Who was at the center of New Orleans finances and is also a Club member?
(a) Hoover.
(b) Will Percy.
(c) LeRoy Percy.
(d) James Pierce Butler Jr.

15. What ongoing problem existed at the mouth of the Mississippi River that prohibited shipping?
(a) A strong undertow.
(b) Piracy.
(c) Sandbars and large amounts of deposited sediment.
(d) Rocky cliffs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?

2. What helped Leroy Percy lose a lot of his political influence outside of the Delta area?

3. What two cities were underwater in early 1927?

4. In the 1850's, what two cities were involved in a transportation and freighting competition?

5. What did the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?

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