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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts that due to floods in the region, Louisiana loses how much land each year?
(a) Fifty square miles.
(b) Seven hundred acres.
(c) A thousand square miles.
(d) Three acres.

2. The author states that how much of New Orleans lies fifteen feet below sea level?
(a) All of it.
(b) One quarter.
(c) Half.
(d) Ten percent.

3. Over a number of centuries, how does the Mississippi River form the state of Louisiana?
(a) By cutting deep, rocky canyons into the land.
(b) By irrigating carefully cultivated fields.
(c) By creating all of the state's boundaries.
(d) By overflowing river banks.

4. Every thousand years or so, the Mississippi River goes through a major shift that leaves behind what?
(a) Bayous and natural levees.
(b) Dry mudflats.
(c) Stranded bird colonies.
(d) Large, deep saltwater lakes.

5. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?
(a) Floating among trees under silently flying birds.
(b) His first encounter with a baby alligator.
(c) Seeing lightning bugs for the first time.
(d) The water rushing through locks and gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout the book, a predominant theme is that the following gets in the way of man's plans:

2. What does Major General Thomas Sands do each year on the Mississippi in late summer or early fall?

3. In 1928, Congress enacts the Flood Control Act to start what?

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

5. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?

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