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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. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?
(a) Say a prayer for those who died in the eruption.
(b) Leave a wreathe and sing a battle song.
(c) Read its inscription and view the landscape.
(d) Carve a new inscription on the monument.

2. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?
(a) Volcano eruption monitoring station.
(b) Natural disaster preparedness center.
(c) Storm-monitoring communication headquarters.
(d) Command-post bomb shelter.

3. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's vocation?
(a) Biologist.
(b) Chemist.
(c) Environmentalist.
(d) Physicist.

4. In 1973, what happens to the Old River Control structure despite engineers drilling it and filling it with cement?
(a) Funding to strengthen the structure is cut.
(b) The foundation is eroded and undermined.
(c) The entire project is cancelled.
(d) The structure is knocked down and rebuilt.

5. Where do Bob and Jackie Genofile live?
(a) In Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
(b) Atop a gentle Hollywood hill.
(c) Up high in the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles.
(d) At the base of a gentle Hollywood hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author tells stories of the following people in conflict with forces of nature:

2. The author meets Barclay Kamb, a researcher living near the San Gabriel Mountains who studies:

3. When the author walks the streets of Iceland's Heimaey years after the 1973 eruption, what does he see?

4. Henry Shreve changes the Mississippi River by introducing what?

5. What does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?

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