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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?
(a) Plexiglass shields.
(b) Relocation.
(c) Careful monitoring.
(d) Barriers.

3. From the time that the U.S. Army Corps takes control of the Atchafalaya, what word does the author associate with the river and the region?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Control.
(c) Collision.
(d) Cooperation.

4. In the mid-1800s, the United States Congress passes a Swamp and Overflow Land Act to:
(a) Take away ownership rights.
(b) Evict land squatters.
(c) Create a new water control system.
(d) Deed swampland to individual states.

5. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
(a) The volcano stops erupting.
(b) Workers can't get close enough.
(c) The Corps' loses funding.
(d) The sensors melt.

Short Answer Questions

1. To cool the lava flows of 1973, what does Valdimar Jonsson suggest?

2. As the Genofile family seeks refuge in the parents' bedroom when the debris flow hits their home, what happens?

3. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?

4. The Hawaiian Research Association forms for what purpose?

5. Throughout the book, a predominant theme is that the following gets in the way of man's plans:

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