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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the flood plan have to be constantly changed?
(a) No one really knows what they are doing.
(b) They change with new government.
(c) Problems still exist.
(d) The river is always changing.

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

4. What is Will's position during the floods of 1927?
(a) He is Hoover's assistant.
(b) He is chairman of the Red Cross.
(c) He is mayor of New Orleans.
(d) He is the President's secretary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refuses to care for the lower parishes even though it was promised to them by New Orleans?

2. Why do the citizens of the Delta area begin to resent Butler?

3. Who makes the Flood Relief Committee overturn Will Percy's decision to evacuate the refugees?

4. Who is very aware of Butler's actions regarding the allocation of funds to the southern parishes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would the flood plan have to be constantly revised today?

2. Why does Butler threaten the local lawyers from taking any cases from the people of the lower parishes?

3. What makes Hoover the obvious candidate when Coolidge decides to not run for reelection?

4. Describe the relationship between Hoover and Moton.

5. What condition are St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines in?

6. Why does the author describe the refugee camps in such detail in conjunction with the increase in flooded areas?

7. In September, what has much of the flood waters done to the area?

8. Why does Hoover's views and the Colored Advisory Committee's views different?

9. Why do the the national black leaders contact Hoover to complain about the treatment of blacks in the Delta region?

10. How are LeRoy Percy's dreams being destroyed as the city of Greenville is flooded?

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