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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?
(a) Black River.
(b) Red River.
(c) New River.
(d) Old River.
2. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?
(a) Digging channels and ditches.
(b) Redirecting it.
(c) Building a metal wall.
(d) Cooling it.
3. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?
(a) Floods it with water.
(b) Bombs it.
(c) Attaches vibration sensors.
(d) Fills it with boulders.
4. What do doctors dispense to workers who are cooling down the lava in Iceland to soothe their hoarse throats?
(a) Finnish cough drops.
(b) Swedish chest lozenges.
(c) Icelandic throat lozenges.
(d) Norwegian chest drops.
5. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?
(a) Leave a wreathe and sing a battle song.
(b) Say a prayer for those who died in the eruption.
(c) Carve a new inscription on the monument.
(d) Read its inscription and view the landscape.
Short Answer Questions
1. During Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's test run to cool lava by the coastline, what happens?
2. The author meets Barclay Kamb, a researcher living near the San Gabriel Mountains who studies:
3. In the 1800s, why do levee districts and boards form in Louisiana?
4. Reykjavik is the capital city of what nation?
5. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
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