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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?
(a) Flu epidemic.
(b) Cracking ice shelf.
(c) Lava.
(d) War.

2. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?
(a) Quickly digging a diversion channel.
(b) Building concrete walls around the city.
(c) Layering sandbags along the riverbanks.
(d) Blowing up a downstream levee.

3. Reykjavik is the capital city of what nation?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Poland.

4. Norris F. Rabalais was born and raised in what Louisiana parish?
(a) West Feliciana.
(b) Avoyelles.
(c) Concordia.
(d) Evangeline.

5. At one point, Rabalais drives the author first to the Mississippi River and then to the Atchafalaya River, showing him that the Mississippi is 18 feet above sea level while the Atchafalaya is how many feet above sea level?
(a) One.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. When workers in Vestmannaeyjar hose down lava, why do they keep moving?

2. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?

3. In "Cooling the Lava," when the author redirects his conversation to Hawaii he talks about the The Hawaiian Research Association which formed in:

4. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?

5. During the 1973 volcanic eruptions, many farmers and fishermen leave Heimaey:

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