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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) They need to be built taller.
(b) More need to be constructed faster.
(c) They work beautifully.
(d) They make the flooding problem worse.

2. In 1973, what happens to the Old River Control structure despite engineers drilling it and filling it with cement?
(a) The entire project is cancelled.
(b) The foundation is eroded and undermined.
(c) The structure is knocked down and rebuilt.
(d) Funding to strengthen the structure is cut.

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

5. From the time that the U.S. Army Corps takes control of the Atchafalaya, what word does the author associate with the river and the region?
(a) Control.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Collision.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

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

3. Every thousand years or so, the Mississippi River goes through a major shift that leaves behind what?

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

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?

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