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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cooling the Lava.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author visits Vestmannaeyjar, what does he notice?
(a) Most residents have moved out.
(b) Few survived the flu epidemic.
(c) No polar bears are left.
(d) Steam still rises from the ground.

2. What ultimately happens to the moving piece of mountain on Vestmannaeyjar?
(a) Completely destroys the town and stops.
(b) Hits another mountain and stops.
(c) Breaks up into smaller, non-moving pieces.
(d) Falls into the ocean.

3. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:
(a) Has practically no solid ground.
(b) Is full of poisonous snakes.
(c) Belongs to Spain.
(d) Is plagued by giant storms on a weekly basis.

4. What does Major General Thomas Sands do each year on the Mississippi in late summer or early fall?
(a) Hosts the Water Recreation Festival.
(b) Trains new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recruits.
(c) Conducts Homeland Security military exercises.
(d) Takes a Low Water Inspection Trip.

5. The writing on Dugie's belt buckle reads:
(a) To serve nature and protect man.
(b) To help control the Mississippi.
(c) To tame the wild Atchafalaya.
(d) To conquer nature and advance humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?

2. The author states that how much of New Orleans lies fifteen feet below sea level?

3. What does James B. Eads invent to explore the Mississippi River?

4. Every thousand years or so, the Mississippi River goes through a major shift that leaves behind what?

5. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?

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