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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reputation of the Boston Club?
(a) It is open to anyone who wants to join.
(b) It is a very charitable organization.
(c) Its members have social status and wealth.
(d) It is not a reputable club.

2. How does Hoover begin to make improvements of the Delta area during the 1927 floods?
(a) He forms a local Red Cross.
(b) He hires locals to rebuild.
(c) He runs a national food drive.
(d) He gives the citizens seeds and lessons on how to grow crops.

3. Although he hates the idea of war, what does William decide to do?
(a) Help train the soldiers.
(b) Fight in WWI.
(c) Become a medic for the war.
(d) Support the President's idea to send soldiers to fight.

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

5. In 1926, what prevented annual levee maintenance?
(a) Very low rivers.
(b) No materials.
(c) Very high rivers.
(d) No workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Hoover goes to inspect the levee south of New Orleans?

2. Why is Butler's bank paid a generous sum of money?

3. What was Thompson's proposition to prevent the levees from failing?

4. After the floods, the nation is talking about disaster. What does Hoover shift the national discussion to?

5. In 1850, what were the Humphreys and Charles Ellet Jr. competing for?

(see the answer key)

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