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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 does Hoover get the assistance of Moton?

2. Why is Butler's bank paid a generous sum of money?

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

4. Who is the obvious candidate for presidency when Coolidge declines a bid for reelection?

5. If the black work force does not return to the area, what does LeRoy Percy believe will happen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the relationship between Hoover and Moton.

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

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

6. Explain how the refugees of the lower parishes are "swindled" out of the money that is promised to them?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

LeRoy Percy was a man with great dignity and determination. How did he use his power to rise up against the KKK? How was he viewed for his interaction with the Klan? What did this tell the reader about him?

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