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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the New Orleans' financial elite spend a lot of time doing?
(a) Raising money for the surrounding areas.
(b) Convincing the national business interests that New Orleans was never in flood danger.
(c) Strengthening their levees.
(d) Helping the areas around them rebuild.

2. Which two things did river height depend on?
(a) Volume and temperature of the water.
(b) Volume and speed of the water.
(c) The volume and direction of the water.
(d) Speed and depth of the water.

3. How does the levee camp become a slave camp?
(a) The camps are disgustingly dirty.
(b) All the people there are treated miserably.
(c) They don't let any of the people leave the camp.
(d) The blacks are required to go to work and fix the levees.

4. What did Thompson and others feel would damage the economy of New Orleans?
(a) The lack of jobs.
(b) Flooding and information withheld from the public.
(c) The War.
(d) Inflation of goods.

5. What are the refugee camps referred to at the time of the floods in the Delta?
(a) Luxury resorts.
(b) Villages.
(c) Tribes.
(d) Concentration camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did most levees fail?

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

3. Why did armed St. Bernard Parish men visit the bankers of New Orleans?

4. How did waves effect the levees?

5. How do black leaders respond to the treatment of the blacks in Greenville?

(see the answer key)

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