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

2. What breaks the relationship between the Percy family and the black community?
(a) The Percy's didn't defend the black community.
(b) It was discovered that the Percy family is racist.
(c) Will attacks the black community for refusing to work.
(d) LeRoy went back on all his promises.

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

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

5. How does Hoover manage to import boats to the area?
(a) He ordered the Coast Guard to go into 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 bought new ones to send in the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How have cutoffs changed?

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

3. How is William Percy different than his father, LeRoy?

4. What makes the racial tensions obvious in Greenville?

5. In an effort to save Greenville, William Percy is determine to fix the levee. After several council meetings with this as the main topic, what is decided?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does making the river management a national problem change the way things will be handled in the future?

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

3. Even as order is beginning in the flood regions, what are living conditions like?

4. How are the refugees that were guaranteed care treated by Hoover and the Red Cross?

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

6. What is the basis of the new corporation Hoover starts in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi?

7. Why is the relationship Hoover has with Moton crucial?

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

9. How does the flood make Hoover a hero?

10. Although William Percy hates war, he fights in WWI and emerges a hero. What does this tell the reader about William's character?

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