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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 do work crews call the two-million ton floating mountain that breaks off during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) Dettifoss the Mountain.
(b) Haukadalur the Ominous.
(c) Flakkarinn the Wanderer.
(d) Surtsey the Fiery.

2. On General Sand's floating conference boat, Oliver Houck is the only board member who is active in what?
(a) Environmental movement.
(b) Taking the census.
(c) Local political life.
(d) Cancelling the Old River project.

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

4. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?
(a) Fishing boats.
(b) Pumping crews.
(c) Polar bear protection.
(d) Tourism.

5. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?
(a) Aquatic recreation.
(b) Farmland irrigation.
(c) Water rights.
(d) Inland navigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rabalais says he remembers being taught in high school that one day, these would be built:

2. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?

3. While aboard the Mississippi on his annual trip, General Sands tries to:

4. The U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 result in what?

5. In the early days of New Orleans, residents build their homes on what?

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