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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What served as an admission that the levees only system was a failure?
(a) Building more jetties.
(b) Blowing up the levee south of New Orleans.
(c) Opening all the crevasses.
(d) Blowing up the levee west of New Orleans.

2. 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 blacks were being treated fairly in the area.
(c) That the area wasn't fit to live in.
(d) That the area was flourishing.

3. Who makes the Flood Relief Committee overturn Will Percy's decision to evacuate the refugees?
(a) Butler.
(b) LeRoy Percy.
(c) Coolidge.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

4. What does Hoover develop a new committee to do after the 1927 floods?
(a) Find ways to deal with future floods and eliminate damage.
(b) Take care of the sick people.
(c) Rebuild the area.
(d) Find food for the area.

5. Who refuses to care for the lower parishes even though it was promised to them by New Orleans?
(a) Simpson and Hoover.
(b) Hoover and The Red Cross.
(c) Butler and Hoover.
(d) The Red Cross and Butler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does a large structure separate the river?

2. Why do the newspapers run reports that Butler is giving fair repayments?

3. Why does Hoover get the assistance of Moton?

4. Why was a concrete spillway built?

5. How have cutoffs changed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hoover respond to the demands of the national black leaders?

2. How does Will Percy respond to the waters rising again and levees in ruins?

3. What effects the lengths of the food stages?

4. In September, what has much of the flood waters done to the area?

5. How will the improvements to Project Flood reduce flooding?

6. Why does Butler threaten the local lawyers from taking any cases from the people of the lower parishes?

7. Why does Hoover's views and the Colored Advisory Committee's views different?

8. How are LeRoy Percy's dreams being destroyed as the city of Greenville is flooded?

9. Why does the author describe the refugee camps in such detail in conjunction with the increase in flooded areas?

10. What are the possible reasons for the crops not growing?

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