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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A snagboat is a river boat that does what?
(a) Removes obstructions from rivers.
(b) Carries large logs to sawmills.
(c) Pulls barges through turbulent water.
(d) Transports workers from one town to another.

2. In gallons, how much water is pumped onto the lava flows of Heimaey each day?
(a) Thirteen thousand.
(b) Thirty thousand.
(c) Thirty million.
(d) Thirteen hundred.

3. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson decides to try to stop the chunk of mountain moving towards Heimaey's town and harbor by:
(a) Ordering a plane to drop a bomb on the mountain.
(b) Pumping seawater directly onto the mountain.
(c) Blowing up the mountain with a thousand sticks of dynamite.
(d) Blocking the mountain with a natural barrier of cooled lava.

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

5. 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) Takes a Low Water Inspection Trip.
(d) Conducts Homeland Security military exercises.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?

2. How tall does the erupting volcano in Heimaey grow to above sea level?

3. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

4. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:

5. What position does Magnus Magnusson hold in 1973?

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