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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. Valdimar Jonsson is a professor of what?
(a) Mob mentality.
(b) Volcanic eruptions.
(c) Thermal fluids.
(d) Icelandic folklore.

2. Vito Vanoni is a civil engineering professor in Southern California who asserts that:
(a) People are not safely protected by debris basins.
(b) People are well protected by debris basins.
(c) Debris basins can stand up to any natural disaster.
(d) Debris basins will crumble in strong earthquakes.

3. Even though Los Angeles gets less rainfall than other major cities do, the rain it does get can fall:
(a) At a rate of twelve inches an hour.
(b) With much greater force.
(c) Mixed with baseball-sized hail.
(d) In a matter of days.

4. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?
(a) Attaches vibration sensors.
(b) Bombs it.
(c) Floods it with water.
(d) Fills it with boulders.

5. Henry Shreve changes the Mississippi River by introducing what?
(a) Vegetation native to Mexico.
(b) New fish breeds.
(c) Gambling along the river.
(d) Mississippi steamboat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the mountain neighborhood called Pasadena Glen in Southern California, what is built above the highest home to protect the neighborhood?

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

3. In 1973, the eruptions in Heimaey begin on January 23 and continue vigorously before diminishing in strength through when?

4. A towboat is designed to:

5. In gallons, how much water is pumped onto the lava flows of Heimaey each day?

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