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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over a number of centuries, how does the Mississippi River form the state of Louisiana?
(a) By overflowing river banks.
(b) By irrigating carefully cultivated fields.
(c) By cutting deep, rocky canyons into the land.
(d) By creating all of the state's boundaries.

2. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?
(a) Protect the fish population of the Atchfalaya River.
(b) Control natural shifts of the Mississippi River.
(c) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.
(d) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.

3. Of the Old River Control Project, LeRoy Dugas, also known as Dugie, is what initially?
(a) Supportive.
(b) Critical.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Furious.

4. The author tells stories of the following people in conflict with forces of nature:
(a) Engineers.
(b) Government officials.
(c) Residents.
(d) All of the them.

5. In the early days of New Orleans, residents build their homes on what?
(a) Metal bridges.
(b) Sand piles.
(c) Natural levees.
(d) Concrete risers.

Short Answer Questions

1. While aboard the Mississippi on his annual trip, General Sands tries to:

2. The livelihood of approximately how many people is affected by the Old River Control?

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

4. Atchafalaya is a what?

5. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?

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