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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Leroy Percy form a relationship that benefited him greatly in the 1900's?
(a) The leader of the KKK.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) Eads.
(d) President Theodore Roosevelt.

2. What was Thompson's proposition to prevent the levees from failing?
(a) To dynamite the levees south of New Orleans.
(b) To build a dam.
(c) To build more levees.
(d) To quickly do repairs on the levees.

3. Who refuses to care for the lower parishes even though it was promised to them by New Orleans?
(a) Simpson and Hoover.
(b) The Red Cross and Butler.
(c) Hoover and The Red Cross.
(d) Butler and Hoover.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the parishes that have been destroyed feel about the newspaper articles that are being printed?

2. Who does Hoover seek assistance from to redevelop the Delta region?

3. What do the refugees of St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish begin to seek?

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

5. What served as an admission that the levees only system was a failure?

(see the answer key)

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