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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. Who does Hoover seek assistance from to redevelop the Delta region?
(a) Butler and Simpson.
(b) LeRoy Percy and Simpson.
(c) LeRoy Percy and Butler.
(d) LeRoy and William Percy.

2. How does Congress respond to the legislature that is proposed about the Mississippi River?
(a) They largely adopt it.
(b) The legislature never makes to Congress.
(c) They change it and then adopt it.
(d) They largely reject it.

3. How do the parishes that have been destroyed feel about the newspaper articles that are being printed?
(a) They are happy about it.
(b) They are saddened.
(c) They are very surprised.
(d) They are angry.

4. What is significant about the piece of legislature allowing the structural change in the river?
(a) It will be the most expensive one Congress enacts.
(b) It is the shortest one congress enacts.
(c) It is the cheapest one congress enacts.
(d) It is the longest one congress enacts.

5. Who primarily establishes the legislature to alter the river?
(a) Congress.
(b) The Mississippi River Committee.
(c) The President of the United States
(d) The Tri-State Flood Control Committee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does a large floodway assist the flow of the Mississippi River?

3. What does rebuilding in the Delta area lead to?

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

5. What does Hoover organize in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi during the 1927 floods?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do LeRoy Percy and his son, William Percy, not see things the same way?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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