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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weather like in the Prologue as the guests of the social party head home?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Foggy.
(c) Snowing.
(d) Stormy.

2. What percentage of the United States does the Mississippi River drain?
(a) 41%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 30%.

3. As other cities are flooding, why did panic erupt amongst the residents in New Orleans?
(a) There are no jobs.
(b) They can see the water rising along the levee.
(c) There has been a series of murders.
(d) They can't get any food into the city.

4. What makes the racial tensions obvious in Greenville?
(a) There are racial attacks.
(b) Only the whites have to go to work.
(c) The whites kept the food and sold the supplies.
(d) The blacks are being treated like royalty.

5. Who does Hoover select as the chairman of the Colored Advisory Committee?
(a) Robert Moton.
(b) William Percy.
(c) LeRoy Percy.
(d) Governor Simpson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did spring flooding in the upper Mississippi River cause?

2. Who is very aware of Butler's actions regarding the allocation of funds to the southern parishes?

3. As the floods continued, what did 30,000 people decide to do?

4. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?

5. In the 1850's, what two cities were involved in a transportation and freighting competition?

(see the answer key)

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