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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Sigurdur Steinthorsson monitor volcanic gases during the 1973 eruption?
(a) Smoking cigars.
(b) Measuring static electricity.
(c) Particle detector.
(d) Infrared glasses.

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

5. What is commonly fished from the bayou regions around the Atchafalaya?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Trout.
(d) Salmon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After work crews deal with the moving mountain on Iceland's erupting island, what challenge do they face?

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

4. The livelihood of approximately how many people is affected by the Old River Control?

5. Initially, Rabalais is hired as a construction inspector to watch for what at the navigation lock?

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