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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1800s, why do levee districts and boards form in Louisiana?
(a) To control water levels.
(b) To establish water claims.
(c) To spread levee costs.
(d) For diplomatic reasons.

2. What does the 1927 flood in Louisiana teach officials about levees?
(a) They make the flooding problem worse.
(b) They need to be built taller.
(c) They work beautifully.
(d) More need to be constructed faster.

3. During high spring waters, what danger forms unseen beneath turbulent waters at the outflow to the Atchafalaya?
(a) An enormous hole larger and deeper than a football stadium.
(b) A crack in a gate of the control structure.
(c) The partial collapse of one of the pylons.
(d) Treacherous new rip currents.

4. Atchafalaya is a what?
(a) Mountain.
(b) River.
(c) City.
(d) Waterfall.

5. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?
(a) Layering sandbags along the riverbanks.
(b) Quickly digging a diversion channel.
(c) Blowing up a downstream levee.
(d) Building concrete walls around the city.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Of the Old River Control Project, LeRoy Dugas, also known as Dugie, is what initially?

5. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?

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