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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 is the Mississippi River managed under today?
(a) Project Flood.
(b) The Mississippi Flood Committee.
(c) A different comittee in each state it runs through.
(d) Free From Flood.

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

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

4. How is William Percy different than his father, LeRoy?
(a) He is a racist.
(b) He prefers books and poetry to hunting and business.
(c) He is more of a leader.
(d) He is more understanding.

5. What do Simpson and the others do to find a solution to the compensation problem?
(a) They have public and private talks with Butler.
(b) They fire Butler.
(c) They donate the money from the City of New Orleans.
(d) They try to raise more money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who receives large bonuses for the work they did during the floods?

2. How long do the food stages last?

3. How are claimants with political and social connections treated differently from the others awaiting compensation?

4. What does Hoover develop a new committee to do after the 1927 floods?

5. How does Hoover manage to import boats to the area?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effects the lengths of the food stages?

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

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

4. Simpson and others try to find a solution to the reimbursement problems by holding conferences with Butler. Are the conferences effective?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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