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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?
(a) Skittish and scared.
(b) Strategical.
(c) Sympathetic.
(d) Ruthless and cold.

4. When small tunnels are formed beneath the levee a miniature geyser erupts. What is this mini geyser called?
(a) A geyser.
(b) A magma bubble.
(c) A gas bubble.
(d) A sand boil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the high river levels threaten in 1912?

2. When was the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River?

3. What were the three basic methods that engineers have attempted to control the river?

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

5. Which three rivers continued to rise as their levees fail?

(see the answer key)

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