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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. What decision does Will Percy make pertaining to the refugees in Greenville?

2. What happens in June of 1927?

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

4. After the floods, the nation is talking about disaster. What does Hoover shift the national discussion to?

5. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effects the lengths of the food stages?

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

4. Why does Hoover's views and the Colored Advisory Committee's views different?

5. What does the public mourning of Greenville show about their feelings for LeRoy Percy?

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

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

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

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

10. How does the flood make Hoover a hero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How could the flooding in many of the cities been prevented? What was ignored by the politicians? What did the politicians focus on?

Essay Topic 2

When the St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish levee was to be dynamited, tickets were sold to the event. Who were the main ticket holders? What did this tell the reader about society in 1927? What did this tell the reader about the citizens of New Orleans?

Essay Topic 3

World War I was occurring during the time of the flood. How did the war affect the Delta region during this time? Why was the war mentioned repeatedly throughout the book? Who did the war affect the greatest and why?

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