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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Atchafalaya.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?
(a) Inland navigation.
(b) Aquatic recreation.
(c) Water rights.
(d) Farmland irrigation.

2. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?
(a) His first encounter with a baby alligator.
(b) Seeing lightning bugs for the first time.
(c) The water rushing through locks and gates.
(d) Floating among trees under silently flying birds.

3. What does James B. Eads invent to explore the Mississippi River?
(a) Water telescope.
(b) Submarine.
(c) Underwater camera.
(d) Glass-bottom boat.

4. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?
(a) Developer of electromagnetic therapy.
(b) Author of Modern Thermodynamics.
(c) Author of Modern Hydrology.
(d) Developer of tripod pilings.

5. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:
(a) Has practically no solid ground.
(b) Is full of poisonous snakes.
(c) Is plagued by giant storms on a weekly basis.
(d) Belongs to Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is commonly fished from the bayou regions around the Atchafalaya?

2. What does the 1927 flood in Louisiana teach officials about levees?

3. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?

4. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?

5. What is the author's role in this book?

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