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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the U.S. Army Corps takes control of the Atchafalaya, Old Cajun bayou life is:
(a) Lost.
(b) Renewed.
(c) Enriched.
(d) Diminished.

3. What is a weir?
(a) Small tugboat.
(b) Large lock.
(c) Small dam.
(d) Large gate.

4. In the early 1800s, private plantation owners in Louisiana levee riverbanks to:
(a) Store river water.
(b) Combine river water.
(c) Irrigate their land.
(d) Protect their land.

5. In the mid-1800s, the United States Congress passes a Swamp and Overflow Land Act to:
(a) Evict land squatters.
(b) Create a new water control system.
(c) Take away ownership rights.
(d) Deed swampland to individual states.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that many regard the Old River Project as what?

2. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:

3. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?

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

5. What are residents of French Acadia called?

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