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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 does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?
(a) Fisheries.
(b) Canneries.
(c) City.
(d) Harbor.

2. In the 1800s, why do levee districts and boards form in Louisiana?
(a) To spread levee costs.
(b) To establish water claims.
(c) For diplomatic reasons.
(d) To control water levels.

3. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
(a) Helgafell will erupt.
(b) Vestmannaeyjar will fall into the sea.
(c) Heimaey will become a ghost town.
(d) Iceland will break in half.

4. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?
(a) Extended, raised levees.
(b) Drought conditions.
(c) Concrete seawalls.
(d) Prosperous economic boom.

5. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?
(a) The Executive branch of government.
(b) Foreign policy.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sveinn Eiriksson is a man of:

2. When workers in Vestmannaeyjar hose down lava, why do they keep moving?

3. The author retells the time when Raphael G. Kazmann walks out onto the five hundred and sixty-six foot structure over the Old River but leaves quickly because:

4. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?

5. With "City Flow" moving towards them in Heimaey, what do pumping crews do?

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