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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The livelihood of approximately how many people is affected by the Old River Control?
(a) 31 thousand.
(b) 3 thousand.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 13 hundred.

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

4. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers distributes Atchafalaya river water to swamps, bayous, towns, and cities in:
(a) Shreveport, Louisiana.
(b) French Acadia.
(c) Houston, Texas.
(d) Neighboring Mississippi.

5. The author retells the time when Raphael G. Kazmann walks out onto the five hundred and sixty-six foot structure over the Old River but leaves quickly because:
(a) A freak tidal wave is coming towards the structure.
(b) An intense lightning storm develops over the area.
(c) The two-hundred thousand ton structure is vibrating.
(d) A hurricane is headed his way.

Short Answer Questions

1. The writing on Dugie's belt buckle reads:

2. This book is a:

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

4. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?

5. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

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