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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?
(a) The failure of the levee system.
(b) The weakness of the government.
(c) The strength of the levee system.
(d) The strength of the people.

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

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

4. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?
(a) The channel is 16 feet deep but a sandbar still exists.
(b) The channel is 16 feet deep with no sandbar.
(c) The channel is only 14 feet deep and the sandbar is still there.
(d) The channel did not get any deeper.

5. What does Hoover develop a new committee to do after the 1927 floods?
(a) Rebuild the area.
(b) Find ways to deal with future floods and eliminate damage.
(c) Find food for the area.
(d) Take care of the sick people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the newspapers run reports that Butler is giving fair repayments?

2. Why did most levees fail?

3. What happened within 10 days of the change in the crevasse at Mounds Landing?

4. What does the New Orleans' financial elite spend a lot of time doing?

5. Who does Hoover send "refugee directives" through?

(see the answer key)

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