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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why was more attention given to Mardi Gras when the history of the area was given?
2. How did Coolidge not get personally involved in the flooding?
3. What happened when Hoover goes to inspect the levee south of New Orleans?
4. When was the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River?
5. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?
Short Essay Questions
1. The levees along the Mississippi River are built differently and to a "higher standard" than levees in other places. What does this engineering and planning tell you about the knowledge of the Mississippi?
2. How involved in the flooding is Coolidge when he is the President of the United States?
3. When the author says it is hoped that the bridge construction will "marry steamboats to railroads", what does he mean?
4. When Humphreys does publish his report, it receives great acclaim in Europe, but because of the Civil War it doesn't receive a lot of recognition in the United States. Why would the Civil War limit the recognition of Humphreys' report?
5. How do the politics in New Orleans operate during the time of the flood in 1927?
6. As committees are formed to decide about dynamiting the levee, the Mounds Landing crevasse is brought up in conversation. Why is this crevasse brought into the conversation?
7. Much of the Delta region is underwater from the failure of levees, yet the people of Greenville still have faith in their protection levee. What happens to their levee?
8. It is said in Chapter 13 that the slower the flood, the more dangerous it is. Why would a slow flood be more dangerous than a fast moving flood?
9. Why does Thompson feel he is doing a good thing by withholding news from the public?
10. What are the terms that are reached for the levee that protects St. Bernard and Plaquemines to be destroyed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discrimination was a major aspect of the novel. Compare and contrast how LeRoy Percy wished the blacks to be treated to how they were treated in the area. How did the action and the idea conflict? Why was this an important conflict in this time in history?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast how the whites were treated versus how the blacks of the area were treated. Were they treated the same? Differently? Were the behaviors consistent?
Essay Topic 3
The Mississippi Levee system was said to be more complicated than the average levee system. What made it different from a regular levee system? How was the levee system along the Mississippi set up? What about it made it more effective? Did this new design for the levee system help during the floods? Why or why not?
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