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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 a concrete spillway built?

2. Why isn't the relationship between Hoover and the Colored Advisory Committee effective?

3. How long do the food stages last?

4. What makes the racial tensions obvious in Greenville?

5. Where does a large structure separate the river?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What effects the lengths of the food stages?

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

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

8. How are the refugees that were guaranteed care treated by Hoover and the Red Cross?

9. How does Will Percy respond to the waters rising again and levees in ruins?

10. Although William Percy hates war, he fights in WWI and emerges a hero. What does this tell the reader about William's character?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The refugee camps were once referred to as "concentration camps." What examples in the book provide reasoning for this description? Were all people treated poorly in these camps? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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