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

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

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

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

5. With whom does LeRoy Percy Sr. prefer to have a relationship with rather than William?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) His nephew.
(d) His cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Hoover a hero in 1927?

2. What is Hoover's main response to the Greenville situation?

3. Why isn't the national goodwill effective in the Delta region?

4. What breaks the relationship between the Percy family and the black community?

5. What does Hoover promise the blacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How will the improvements to Project Flood reduce flooding?

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

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

6. What are the possible reasons for the crops not growing?

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

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

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

10. How does Will Percy respond to the waters rising again and levees in ruins?

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