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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. What is chaparral?
(a) A style of home built on steep mountains.
(b) Dense shrubs that grow on mountainsides.
(c) A variety of pine tree common in Los Angeles County.
(d) A type of storm common to Southern California.

2. The author asserts that due to floods in the region, Louisiana loses how much land each year?
(a) Fifty square miles.
(b) Three acres.
(c) A thousand square miles.
(d) Seven hundred acres.

3. During the debris flow, what lands on the roof of the Genofile family's home?
(a) Camping equipment.
(b) Boulders.
(c) Animals.
(d) Hail stones.

4. How much had Los Angeles County's debris basins trapped at the time this book was written?
(a) Five hundred thousand tons.
(b) Thirty thousand tons.
(c) Twenty million tons.
(d) One million tons.

5. The author tells stories of the following people in conflict with forces of nature:
(a) Government officials.
(b) All of the them.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Residents.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. One of Miner Harkness' jobs is to rescue:

4. In Los Angeles County, a flood engineer admits that trying to manage what falls down the San Gabriel Mountains is like:

5. In Heimaey, who is Sveinn Eiriksson?

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