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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. How are residents and livestock evacuated from Heimaey during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) By trains and planes.
(b) By boats, trains, and planes.
(c) By ships and trains.
(d) By ships, planes, and boats.

2. When the author asks several individuals why people buy homes in dangerous areas of Southern California, one of the answers he receives is that:
(a) People are naive and ignorant, and they choose to live in denial.
(b) Newcomers are willing to put their lives in danger for the opportunity to live there.
(c) There are dangers anywhere people live.
(d) New home buyers don't know the history of the area.

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

4. What do work crews call the two-million ton floating mountain that breaks off during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) Flakkarinn the Wanderer.
(b) Dettifoss the Mountain.
(c) Haukadalur the Ominous.
(d) Surtsey the Fiery.

5. Why is it that the walls of the Genofile family's house do not crumble when the debris flow hits?
(a) The flow is light.
(b) The flow passes through the back and front doors and keeps going.
(c) They are steel-reinforced concrete block walls.
(d) A backyard retaining wall protects the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Old River Control began its operations in what year?

3. As the Genofile family watches the lightning storm from windows at the back of their home, what do they see?

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

5. In 1928, Congress enacts the Flood Control Act to start what?

(see the answer key)

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