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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a widespread problem in St. Bernard and Plaquemines?
(a) Murder.
(b) Robbery.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Disease.

2. Why isn't the national goodwill effective in the Delta region?
(a) The people won't allow the national goodwill in the region.
(b) There aren't enough funds and the funds are being used poorly.
(c) The government won't let them help.
(d) The national goodwill refuses to help.

3. What is significant about the piece of legislature allowing the structural change in the river?
(a) It is the shortest one congress enacts.
(b) It is the longest one congress enacts.
(c) It will be the most expensive one Congress enacts.
(d) It is the cheapest one congress enacts.

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

5. Who is in charge of the finances in New Orleans?
(a) William Percy.
(b) LeRoy Percy.
(c) Butler.
(d) Governor Simpson.

6. Why was a concrete spillway built?
(a) To make a dam.
(b) To slow down the river.
(c) To allow water to flow into Lake Pontchartrain.
(d) To make a lake.

7. In September, 1927 what condition is the Mississippi Drainage Basin in?
(a) Flourishing in crops.
(b) In reconstruction.
(c) The same as before the flood.
(d) Ruin and rot.

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

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

10. How does Hoover manage to import boats to the area?
(a) He bought new ones to send in the area.
(b) He used the help of the Red Cross.
(c) He paid people large amounts of money to borrow their boats.
(d) He ordered the Coast Guard to go into the area.

11. What decision does Will Percy make pertaining to the refugees in Greenville?
(a) To create more camps.
(b) To evacuate them.
(c) To stop giving them resources.
(d) To keep them there.

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

13. What is Hoover's main response to the Greenville situation?
(a) He went into damage control.
(b) He asked the President for help.
(c) He ignored it.
(d) He dontated money himself.

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

15. What did Moton realize about Hoover before Hoover's run for the presidency?
(a) That he will blackmail Hoover.
(b) That Hoover is a racist.
(c) That Hoover will keep all his promises.
(d) That Hoover was not keeping his promises.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Butler limit payments to the people in the southern parishes?

2. Why isn't the relationship between Hoover and the Colored Advisory Committee effective?

3. What does the New Orleans' financial elite spend a lot of time doing?

4. A long series of meetings ensues to discuss the legislature to alter the river. Who moves to Washington to participate in the debates even though he was not asked?

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

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