Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	What does the writer say is the best guide to exploring the Mississippi?
	A.	driving around it
	B.	an engineer's map
	C.	an airplane flight that follows the river
	D.	the imagination

2.	According to the writer, what defines the area near the Mississippi River?
	A.	its colorful and bloody past
	B.	the colorful language of the inhabitants
	C.	new shopping centers
	D.	the levees, dams, and locks that contain the river

3.	What new conflict rages along the banks of the Mississippi?
	A.	a conflict that concerns the particulars of individual lives
	B.	the conflict to stop development along the river banks
	C.	the conflict over who owns the river
	D.	the conflict against racial inequality

4.	What determines the fate of many river towns today?
	A.	the agricultural economy of states that are up river
	B.	amusement parks
	C.	tourism
	D.	the success or failure of local school districts

5.	What have many river towns done to survive?
	A.	return to agricultural-based economies
	B.	rebuild and modernize infrastructures
	C.	bring in large shopping centers
	D.	recreated the past to attract tourists

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