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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Butler limit payments to the people in the southern parishes?
(a) He didn't raise a lot of money.
(b) He doesn't look at the sales receipts.
(c) He only gives a certain amount per household.
(d) He limits the amount each parish can have.

3. Why do the citizens of the Delta area begin to resent Butler?
(a) He was robbing everyone.
(b) He was a con artist.
(c) He was successful and the person limiting reimbursements.
(d) He was a nasty man.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After losing the run for presidency, what did Hoover receive?

2. How does Butler ensure the city of New Orleans will not face legal actions?

3. Why does Hoover accept the offer to head the flood relief committee?

4. During the major storms that were occurring along the Mississippi River in 1927, what happens to the dam in Arkansas?

5. In early 1927, what did many of the communities begin to do?

(see the answer key)

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