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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. When a debris flow crashes into the Genofiles' house, what pours through their home?
(a) A mountain of snow.
(b) Mud and boulders.
(c) Sandy water.
(d) Polluted water.

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

3. Of the Old River Control Project, LeRoy Dugas, also known as Dugie, is what initially?
(a) Critical.
(b) Furious.
(c) Supportive.
(d) Indifferent.

4. How long does the the Mauna Loa eruption of 1984 last?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Thirty-three weeks.
(d) Thirty-three days.

5. How tall are the highest peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains?
(a) Fourteen thousand feet.
(b) Ten thousand feet.
(c) Eighteen thousand feet.
(d) Seven thousand feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?

2. Why do residents of Heimaey hose down oncoming lava?

3. The author meets Barclay Kamb, a researcher living near the San Gabriel Mountains who studies:

4. What do work crews call the two-million ton floating mountain that breaks off during the 1973 eruptions?

5. How much had Los Angeles County's debris basins trapped at the time this book was written?

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