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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. 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) Five.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) One.

2. What do doctors dispense to workers who are cooling down the lava in Iceland to soothe their hoarse throats?
(a) Norwegian chest drops.
(b) Finnish cough drops.
(c) Icelandic throat lozenges.
(d) Swedish chest lozenges.

3. Vestmannaeyjar holds how much of Iceland's total population?
(a) Twelve percent.
(b) Two and a half percent.
(c) Forty-two and a half percent.
(d) Twenty-two percent.

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

5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?
(a) Control natural shifts of the Mississippi River.
(b) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.
(c) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.
(d) Protect the fish population of the Atchfalaya River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reykjavik is the capital city of what nation?

2. How do the returning residents benefit from the cooled but still hot lava rocks on Vestmannaeyjar?

3. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?

4. In the mid-1800s, the United States Congress passes a Swamp and Overflow Land Act to:

5. For the most part, residents of Heimaey are what during the 1973 eruptions?

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