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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Mississippi River managed under today?
(a) Free From Flood.
(b) The Mississippi Flood Committee.
(c) A different comittee in each state it runs through.
(d) Project Flood.

2. How does Butler ensure the city of New Orleans will not face legal actions?
(a) He threatens the people from suing them.
(b) He makes sure the city does nothing wrong.
(c) He threatens any lawyers that could be hired.
(d) He hires the best lawyers to represent the city.

3. What happens as the rain continues to fall in the Delta area?
(a) A waterfall develops at the bottom of the Mississippi.
(b) Crevases widen.
(c) The Mississippi River gets longer.
(d) Multiple levees continue to fail.

4. Although he hates the idea of war, what does William decide to do?
(a) Support the President's idea to send soldiers to fight.
(b) Help train the soldiers.
(c) Fight in WWI.
(d) Become a medic for the war.

5. Why is Butler's bank paid a generous sum of money?
(a) They collected a lot of money from taxes.
(b) The bank's yacht was used in rescue missions.
(c) They sold a lot of property to businesses after the floods.
(d) They owned insurance on the homes in the southern parishes.

6. Who does Hoover send "refugee directives" through?
(a) Butler.
(b) William Percy.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) Governor Simpson.

7. Why can't boats in the flooded area help get people out?
(a) The boats were not working sufficiently.
(b) The boats weren't large enough.
(c) All the boats got washed away.
(d) There was no way to get fuel to the boats.

8. What is significant about the piece of legislature allowing the structural change in the river?
(a) It is the cheapest one congress enacts.
(b) It is the longest one congress enacts.
(c) It will be the most expensive one Congress enacts.
(d) It is the shortest one congress enacts.

9. Why do the newspapers run reports that Butler is giving fair repayments?
(a) They believe he is actually making these repayments.
(b) Butler threatened to sue.
(c) Butler is paying them off.
(d) They are afraid of Butler.

10. What does Moton's committee establish after their inspection of the flood area?
(a) That blacks were being held captive in the camps.
(b) That the area wasn't fit to live in.
(c) That the area was flourishing.
(d) That blacks were being treated fairly in the area.

11. Butler continues to make promises to the southern parishes but what are his intentions?
(a) To steal from them.
(b) To help them the best way he can.
(c) To not give them the money they were promised.
(d) To keep all his promises.

12. How are claimants with political and social connections treated differently from the others awaiting compensation?
(a) They didn't have to wait for their money.
(b) They are paid off in special deals.
(c) They are given double the amounts.
(d) They didn't need the money.

13. Why does the flood plan have to be constantly changed?
(a) They change with new government.
(b) Problems still exist.
(c) The river is always changing.
(d) No one really knows what they are doing.

14. How does Hoover begin to make improvements of the Delta area during the 1927 floods?
(a) He forms a local Red Cross.
(b) He gives the citizens seeds and lessons on how to grow crops.
(c) He hires locals to rebuild.
(d) He runs a national food drive.

15. What is Hoover's main response to the Greenville situation?
(a) He asked the President for help.
(b) He ignored it.
(c) He went into damage control.
(d) He dontated money himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hoover select as the chairman of the Colored Advisory Committee?

2. A year after the flooding at Mounds Landing, how many people were the Red Cross still feeding?

3. In an effort to save Greenville, William Percy is determine to fix the levee. After several council meetings with this as the main topic, what is decided?

4. Who does Hoover seek assistance from to redevelop the Delta region?

5. What causes the areas to the west of Louisiana to flood?

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