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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?
(a) Foreign policy.
(b) Man.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) The Executive branch of government.

2. The author mentions that when he met Rabalais, he wore what in his pocket?
(a) Gold pocket watch.
(b) Red bandana.
(c) Silver pocket watch.
(d) Checkered bandana.

3. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?
(a) Water rights.
(b) Inland navigation.
(c) Farmland irrigation.
(d) Aquatic recreation.

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

5. What does "City Flow" do in Heimaey?
(a) Moves lava streams away from the town.
(b) Kills twenty-nine workers.
(c) Crushes houses in its path.
(d) Melts the moving mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson decides to try to stop the chunk of mountain moving towards Heimaey's town and harbor by:

2. What gives Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson the idea to cool the oncoming flow of lava?

3. What is commonly fished from the bayou regions around the Atchafalaya?

4. How tall does the erupting volcano in Heimaey grow to above sea level?

5. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?

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