If You Found Yourself "Up the Yazoo Without a Paddle

question 66

Multiple Choice

If you found yourself "up the yazoo without a paddle" you'd likely be ________.

• A)following the wrong distributary upstream, never to intersect the main channel
• B)going up a low capacity parallel tributary on the other side of the levee from the main channel
• C)in a meander cutoff oxbow lake across the cutbank from the main channel
• D)vainly wishing that you had read the textbook a little more closely

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