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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the city of New Orleans after the floods of 1927?
(a) The city was flooded.
(b) The city caught fire.
(c) The city got richer than ever.
(d) The city suffered financial losses and goes into a period of decay.

3. Butler continues to make promises to the southern parishes but what are his intentions?
(a) To keep all his promises.
(b) To help them the best way he can.
(c) To steal from them.
(d) To not give them the money they were promised.

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

5. What do the refugees of St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish begin to seek?
(a) Help in rebuilding.
(b) Money for the damages.
(c) Supplies to restart their businesses.
(d) Food and water.

6. Hoover speaks to the black community to ease tempers. How does the black community respond?
(a) With happiness.
(b) Not at all.
(c) With anger.
(d) In a non-violent protest.

7. How does a large floodway assist the flow of the Mississippi River?
(a) It makes the river deeper.
(b) It slows the river down.
(c) It creates a large reservior.
(d) It makes the river more shallow.

8. How does Butler limit payments to the people in the southern parishes?
(a) He only gives a certain amount per household.
(b) He limits the amount each parish can have.
(c) He didn't raise a lot of money.
(d) He doesn't look at the sales receipts.

9. Why does Hoover get the assistance of Moton?
(a) To "deflect" criticism of the black community.
(b) To show he wasn't racist.
(c) To get a better relationship with the black community.
(d) To include the black community in his plans.

10. What does Hoover develop a new committee to do after the 1927 floods?
(a) Take care of the sick people.
(b) Find food for the area.
(c) Rebuild the area.
(d) Find ways to deal with future floods and eliminate damage.

11. How do the parishes that have been destroyed feel about the newspaper articles that are being printed?
(a) They are very surprised.
(b) They are happy about it.
(c) They are saddened.
(d) They are angry.

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

13. Whose vote did Hoover lose in the election for president?
(a) All white Republicans.
(b) The black Republicans.
(c) All the blacks.
(d) All the poor whites.

14. What are the refugee camps referred to at the time of the floods in the Delta?
(a) Luxury resorts.
(b) Concentration camps.
(c) Villages.
(d) Tribes.

15. In the fall, what comes after the flood?
(a) A drought, insects and worms, and an early freeze.
(b) Crops.
(c) A heat wave.
(d) Hurricanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who receives large bonuses for the work they did during the floods?

2. In September, 1927 what condition is the Mississippi Drainage Basin in?

3. What does Hoover promise the blacks?

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

5. How does the black population respond to the decision made by the council?

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