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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hoover promise the blacks?
(a) Equal paying jobs.
(b) Resettlement funds.
(c) Equal treatment to whites.
(d) The right to vote.

2. If the black work force does not return to the area, what does LeRoy Percy believe will happen?
(a) The Delta area will recover more quickly.
(b) The Delta area will never recover.
(c) The segregation in the Delta area will improve.
(d) The Delta area will become even more segregated.

3. Who does Hoover seek assistance from to redevelop the Delta region?
(a) LeRoy Percy and Butler.
(b) LeRoy Percy and Simpson.
(c) LeRoy and William Percy.
(d) Butler and Simpson.

4. What is the Mississippi River managed under today?
(a) Free From Flood.
(b) A different comittee in each state it runs through.
(c) The Mississippi Flood Committee.
(d) Project Flood.

5. For what does Moton have to "deflect" criticism for?
(a) The rebuilding of the black communities.
(b) Ensuring blacks receive paying jobs.
(c) The distribution of food and water.
(d) The distribution of money.

6. What fraction of the crops planted are actually harvested?
(a) Less than 1/4.
(b) All of them.
(c) About a 1/2.
(d) None of them.

7. What causes the areas to the west of Louisiana to flood?
(a) Constant rain.
(b) A crevasse widened.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) The failure of the levee at Cabin Teele.

8. How does the black population respond to the decision made by the council?
(a) They offered to organize work parties.
(b) They started a riot.
(c) They boycotted.
(d) They protested.

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

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

11. After the floods, the nation is talking about disaster. What does Hoover shift the national discussion to?
(a) Organization.
(b) War.
(c) Politics.
(d) Agriculture.

12. How does Hoover begin to regain order in the Delta area?
(a) He gives people places to live.
(b) He sends in the National Guard.
(c) He uses his authority to start programs.
(d) He gives people money.

13. In 1937, the Mississippi waters rise again, but why is there no flood?
(a) The waters didn't get high enough.
(b) The new plan for flood control works.
(c) The National Guard stopped it.
(d) The levees have been built much stronger.

14. During Christmastime in 1929, why are the Greenville whites in public mourning?
(a) Their city is still in shambles.
(b) LeRoy Percy has died.
(c) Governor Simpson was defeated.
(d) The KKK has returned.

15. What does Hoover do in response to Moton's report?
(a) He promises future assistance to the blacks.
(b) He makes Moton in charge of a committee to improve the quality of life.
(c) He starts to make changes that day.
(d) He ignores the report.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Hoover get the assistance of Moton?

3. What did Moton realize about Hoover before Hoover's run for the presidency?

4. Where does a large structure separate the river?

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

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