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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. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?
(a) Drought conditions.
(b) Concrete seawalls.
(c) Prosperous economic boom.
(d) Extended, raised levees.

2. When workers in Vestmannaeyjar hose down lava, why do they keep moving?
(a) To stay warm in the cold climate.
(b) Because the lava flow keeps shifting.
(c) To keep their boots from burning up.
(d) To cool down other parts of the flow.

3. Miner Harkness, a native of the mountainous regions of Southern California, feels that flood control engineers have no perspective because they:
(a) Want to create projects regardless of safety issues.
(b) Fail to consider the history of the region.
(c) Squander taxpayers' money.
(d) Aggravate the mountain erosion problem by building roads.

4. When does hot lava stop glowing red?
(a) When the air temperature is minus twenty.
(b) Below fifteen hundred degrees.
(c) Below thirty-five hundred degrees.
(d) When it hits an iceberg.

5. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?
(a) 23.
(b) 459.
(c) 42.
(d) 217.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do doctors dispense to workers who are cooling down the lava in Iceland to soothe their hoarse throats?

2. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?

3. What are dry winds that cross the Mojave Desert called?

4. Valdimar Jonsson is a professor of what?

5. In the mountains of Southern California, brush fires ignite by:

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