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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. How does Butler ensure the city of New Orleans will not face legal actions?
2. How is William Percy different than his father, LeRoy?
3. What did Moton realize about Hoover before Hoover's run for the presidency?
4. The total amount of claims between St. Bernard and Plaquemines is $35 million. How much do these parishes receive between the two of them at the end?
5. What fraction of the crops planted are actually harvested?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hoover respond to the demands of the national black leaders?
2. What is the basis of the new corporation Hoover starts in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi?
3. How does Will Percy respond to the waters rising again and levees in ruins?
4. How does the flood relief become more organized under the order of Hoover?
5. How does the flood make Hoover a hero?
6. Explain how the refugees of the lower parishes are "swindled" out of the money that is promised to them?
7. Although William Percy hates war, he fights in WWI and emerges a hero. What does this tell the reader about William's character?
8. Why does Hoover's views and the Colored Advisory Committee's views different?
9. What effects the lengths of the food stages?
10. Why do the the national black leaders contact Hoover to complain about the treatment of blacks in the Delta region?
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
This nonfiction reenactment is full of history, hardship and culture. What points can be depicted from the novel? Why are these topics important in the novel? What events really emphasize each topic?
Essay Topic 3
Personification is giving a nonliving object characteristics of something that is alive. How is personification used to describe the river? Why would it be used this way? What was the reasoning behind the flooding when using personification?
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