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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cooling the Lava.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Heimaey, who is Sveinn Eiriksson?
(a) Physician.
(b) Volcano expert.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Fire chief.

2. The oldest parts of Iceland are how old?
(a) One and a half million years.
(b) Five millions years.
(c) Twenty-nine million years.
(d) Fourteen million years.

3. In the 1800s, swamps in Louisiana are drained and used as what?
(a) Storage pits.
(b) Military camps.
(c) Hideouts.
(d) Farmland.

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

5. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:
(a) Is plagued by giant storms on a weekly basis.
(b) Is full of poisonous snakes.
(c) Has practically no solid ground.
(d) Belongs to Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?

2. What are residents of French Acadia called?

3. Vestmannaeyjar holds how much of Iceland's total population?

4. What does James B. Eads invent to explore the Mississippi River?

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

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