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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. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
(a) Workers can't get close enough.
(b) The volcano stops erupting.
(c) The sensors melt.
(d) The Corps' loses funding.

2. What is commonly fished from the bayou regions around the Atchafalaya?
(a) Trout.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Lobster.

3. The author states that how much of New Orleans lies fifteen feet below sea level?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) All of it.
(c) One quarter.
(d) Half.

4. The first debris basin in Southern California successfully protects what village?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Tijeras.
(c) Tujunga.
(d) Temecula.

5. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
(a) Iceland will break in half.
(b) Vestmannaeyjar will fall into the sea.
(c) Helgafell will erupt.
(d) Heimaey will become a ghost town.

Short Answer 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?

2. During high spring waters, what danger forms unseen beneath turbulent waters at the outflow to the Atchafalaya?

3. In the San Gabriel Mountains, what is a debris flow?

4. Even though Hawaii's Hilo is often threatened by lava flows, Hilo has thus far been protected because:

5. How much money does the Genofile family receive from the county in damages for an improperly designed and maintained basin above their house?

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