54 (D-8) LSU / Rural Life Museum / Quiz 7

Next visit: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (LSU).

It is the largest institution of higher education in Louisiana with 24,000 undergraduate students and 5000 graduate students in 2011.
However, it isn't my Alma Mater.  I was no longer living in Louisiana when I did my studies.

LSU also runs four museums in the Baton Rouge area:
LSU Museum of Art, LSU Museum of Natural Science, LSU Museum of Natural History and the museum we'll visit, LSU Rural Life Museum.  There we'll discover the day-to-day life of the early Americans here in Louisiana.  We've seen their origins already: Native Americans, French and Spanish settlers, Anglo-Americans, Germans, Africans and Acadians.  There is also a recreated "working plantation" which consists of several buildings authentically furnished to reconstruct all the major activities of life on a typical 19th century plantation.

Jane 
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-undergraduates = http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/undergraduate
-graduate students =  étudiant(e) de deuxième, troisième cycle
-Alma Mater = http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater 
Mjy Alma Mater was Ohio State University.
The term can also mean the song or hymn associated with the school.
LSU's Alma Mater, for example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJ7WuwYE_s
which begins: 
"Where stately oaks and broad magnolias shade inspiring halls, 
There stands our dear Old Alma Mater who to us recalls..."

-run = here the verb 'run" means faire fonctionner

QUIZ 7
1.  How long is the Causeway, the bridge which crosses over Lake Pontchartrain?
2.  How many people died in Louisiana because of Hurricane
Katrina in 2005?
3.  Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, the play which takes place in New Orleans?
4.  What's the name of Jane's school where she went to kindergarten?  
5.  What's the name of New Orleans' oldest streetcar line?
6.  How did the writer choose his pen name, Mark Twain? (Return to Post 33 for the answer and at the same time you can listen again to the song "The City of New Orleans".)
7.  What's the country of origin of the people who came in the early part of the 18th century to settle in the area to the east of the Mississippi river?  There's even a lake here which has their name. (Post 34)