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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?
(a) Complaints.
(b) Storms.
(c) Number of bird colonies.
(d) Number of private boats.

2. When the author walks the streets of Iceland's Heimaey years after the 1973 eruption, what does he see?
(a) Vacant houses that have never been repaired.
(b) A completely deserted ghost town.
(c) Several new neighborhoods built atop cooled lava flows.
(d) A town twice as large as before the eruption.

3. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?
(a) Building a metal wall.
(b) Redirecting it.
(c) Cooling it.
(d) Digging channels and ditches.

4. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?
(a) His first encounter with a baby alligator.
(b) Seeing lightning bugs for the first time.
(c) Floating among trees under silently flying birds.
(d) The water rushing through locks and gates.

5. The livelihood of approximately how many people is affected by the Old River Control?
(a) 31 thousand.
(b) 3 thousand.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 13 hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

2. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?

3. Even though Hawaii's Hilo is often threatened by lava flows, Hilo has thus far been protected because:

4. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?

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

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