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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. What does Hoover organize in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi during the 1927 floods?
(a) Unemployment.
(b) A local Red Cross in each state.
(c) New local governments in all three states.
(d) A separate reconstruction corporation.

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

3. In 1928, what are the blacks in the Delta region doing?
(a) Living peacefully with the whites.
(b) Leaving the area.
(c) Starting their own farms.
(d) Being slaves.

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

5. Who remains in Greenville after the news of the coming floodwaters is announced?
(a) Just the poor whites.
(b) Just the business leaders.
(c) The blacks, the poor whites and the business leaders.
(d) Just the blacks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hoover begin to regain order in the Delta area?

3. Who is in charge of the finances in New Orleans?

4. What are the refugee camps referred to at the time of the floods in the Delta?

5. Why was a concrete spillway built?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Will Percy declaring a martial law in Greenville go against everything his father believes in?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the levee get fixed without armed guards forcing the blacks to do it?

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

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

10. Why does the dynamiting the levee below New Orleans prove the levees only plan to be a failure?

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