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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was unique about the crevasse at Mounds Landing?
(a) It was the smallest along the Mississippi.
(b) It was the only one on the Northern Mississippi.
(c) It was the largest along the Mississippi.
(d) It was the only one along the Mississippi.

2. As much of the Delta area was flooding, why did Greenville remain hopeful?
(a) They weren't right on the river.
(b) They had a higher elevation than the other cities.
(c) They had an 8 foot high protection levee.
(d) They never flooded before.

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

4. Before going to Washington, what was Hoover's life like?
(a) He was a successful lawyer.
(b) He was middle class and owned a business.
(c) He was a wealthy, successful engineer.
(d) He was poor and a blue collar worker.

5. Where did Thompson go to present his argument to save New Orleans from flooding?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two things did river height depend on?

2. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?

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

4. Why did LeRoy Percy's popularity increase as the Klan began to fall apart?

5. What did the official report about the mouth of the Mississippi that Eads wrote finally say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Much of the Delta region is underwater from the failure of levees, yet the people of Greenville still have faith in their protection levee. What happens to their levee?

2. The author wrote that during the 1800's "the prevailing attitude is that the Mississippi River can be controlled if the laws of nature governing the river were understood." What could John M. Barry mean by this?

3. One night, a boat approaches the levee that protects St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parshes and is shot at. Why was the boat shot at?

4. Why does Thompson feel he is doing a good thing by withholding news from the public?

5. What are the terms that are reached for the levee that protects St. Bernard and Plaquemines to be destroyed?

6. When Humphreys does publish his report, it receives great acclaim in Europe, but because of the Civil War it doesn't receive a lot of recognition in the United States. Why would the Civil War limit the recognition of Humphreys' report?

7. Why does the destruction of the St. Bernard and Plaquemines levee prove to be unnecessary?

8. The railroads and river make the Delta region flourish, yet there is a shortage of workers in the area. How will the better treatment of blacks by LeRoy Percy help this problem?

9. How is pressure the most damaging component to a levee?

10. Why do people want to follow the ways of the Ku Klux Klan rather than follow Percy's successful lead?

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