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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) A thousand square miles.
(b) Fifty square miles.
(c) Seven hundred acres.
(d) Three acres.

2. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?
(a) Foreign policy.
(b) Man.
(c) The Executive branch of government.
(d) The United Nations.

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

4. Atchafalaya is a what?
(a) River.
(b) City.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Waterfall.

5. In the early 1800s, private plantation owners in Louisiana levee riverbanks to:
(a) Protect their land.
(b) Store river water.
(c) Irrigate their land.
(d) Combine river water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?

2. Rabalais says he remembers being taught in high school that one day, these would be built:

3. The author retells the time when Raphael G. Kazmann walks out onto the five hundred and sixty-six foot structure over the Old River but leaves quickly because:

4. For how many years after the Old River Control begins does the operation appear to be successful?

5. A towboat is designed to:

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