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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.
(d) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.

2. While aboard the Mississippi on his annual trip, General Sands tries to:
(a) Capture poachers.
(b) Settle differences.
(c) Fine environmentalists.
(d) Generate new contracts.

3. Every thousand years or so, the Mississippi River goes through a major shift that leaves behind what?
(a) Large, deep saltwater lakes.
(b) Dry mudflats.
(c) Stranded bird colonies.
(d) Bayous and natural levees.

4. By 1812, the east bank of the Mississippi River is levied up to which city?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Lake Charles.
(c) Baton Rouge.
(d) Shreveport.

5. In a conversation between General Sands and Oliver Houck on a floating conference boat, what does the General remind Houck regarding the vital role of the U.S. Army Corps?
(a) No other organization has authority to control Louisiana's rivers.
(b) The Corps is keeping his neighborhood safe from nine feet of water.
(c) This is the only organization that has ever succeeded in maintaining order in New Orleans.
(d) The Corps keeps the region safe against criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Old River Control began its operations in what year?

2. 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?

3. Rabalais says he remembers being taught in high school that one day, these would be built:

4. Norris F. Rabalais was born and raised in what Louisiana parish?

5. Over a number of centuries, how does the Mississippi River form the state of Louisiana?

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