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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts that due to floods in the region, Louisiana loses how much land each year?
(a) Three acres.
(b) Fifty square miles.
(c) A thousand square miles.
(d) Seven hundred acres.

2. The author tells stories of the following people in conflict with forces of nature:
(a) Engineers.
(b) Government officials.
(c) All of the them.
(d) Residents.

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

4. How are residents and livestock evacuated from Heimaey during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) By ships, planes, and boats.
(b) By trains and planes.
(c) By ships and trains.
(d) By boats, trains, and planes.

5. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?
(a) Quickly digging a diversion channel.
(b) Layering sandbags along the riverbanks.
(c) Building concrete walls around the city.
(d) Blowing up a downstream levee.

Short Answer Questions

1. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?

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

3. After being hosed down, how long does it take for red-hot lava to turn black?

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

5. In the early 1800s, private plantation owners in Louisiana levee riverbanks to:

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