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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the three basic methods that engineers have attempted to control the river?
(a) Levees, outlets, and cutoffs.
(b) Levees, outlets, and dams.
(c) Levees, dams, and cutoffs.
(d) Dams, outlets and cutoffs.

2. What is a widespread problem in St. Bernard and Plaquemines?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Murder.
(c) Robbery.
(d) Disease.

3. If the black work force does not return to the area, what does LeRoy Percy believe will happen?
(a) The Delta area will become even more segregated.
(b) The Delta area will recover more quickly.
(c) The Delta area will never recover.
(d) The segregation in the Delta area will improve.

4. Hoover speaks to the black community to ease tempers. How does the black community respond?
(a) Not at all.
(b) In a non-violent protest.
(c) With happiness.
(d) With anger.

5. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?
(a) Increase the number of outlets.
(b) Decrease farmland.
(c) Increase farmland.
(d) Increase the number of reservoirs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the levees damaged in early 1927?

2. What event did the Boston Club pay a large role in?

3. What did spring flooding in the upper Mississippi River cause?

4. What year was the jetty project successfully completed?

5. What is the atmosphere of the refugee camps?

(see the answer key)

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