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

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

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

4. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's vocation?
(a) Biologist.
(b) Environmentalist.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Chemist.

5. How tall does the erupting volcano in Heimaey grow to above sea level?
(a) Three thousand feet.
(b) Seven hundred feet.
(c) One thousand two hundred feet.
(d) One hundred feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. A towboat is designed to:

2. How many bowl-shaped excavations line the San Gabriel Mountains to catch debris falling from the mountains?

3. In "Cooling the Lava," when the author redirects his conversation to Hawaii he talks about the The Hawaiian Research Association which formed in:

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

5. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?

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