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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. River flow is measured in cubic feet per second (cfs). What happens as the cfs increases?
(a) A flood occurs.
(b) The direction of the river changes.
(c) The river's speed increases.
(d) The river's depth increases.

2. How are claimants with political and social connections treated differently from the others awaiting compensation?
(a) They are paid off in special deals.
(b) They didn't need the money.
(c) They didn't have to wait for their money.
(d) They are given double the amounts.

3. What do the people suffer from long after the flood?
(a) Monetary issues.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Homelessness.
(d) Disease.

4. What served as an admission that the levees only system was a failure?
(a) Building more jetties.
(b) Blowing up the levee west of New Orleans.
(c) Opening all the crevasses.
(d) Blowing up the levee south of New Orleans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thompson and others feel would damage the economy of New Orleans?

2. How were the levees along the Mississippi different from levees in other places?

3. What is Hoover's main response to the Greenville situation?

4. What could be a huge force in politics in the 1920's?

5. What two cities were underwater in early 1927?

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