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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While aboard the Mississippi on his annual trip, General Sands tries to:
(a) Fine environmentalists.
(b) Generate new contracts.
(c) Settle differences.
(d) Capture poachers.

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

3. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson is a native of which country?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Finland.

4. How does Sigurdur Steinthorsson monitor volcanic gases during the 1973 eruption?
(a) Infrared glasses.
(b) Smoking cigars.
(c) Measuring static electricity.
(d) Particle detector.

5. When the author visits Vestmannaeyjar, what does he notice?
(a) Few survived the flu epidemic.
(b) Most residents have moved out.
(c) Steam still rises from the ground.
(d) No polar bears are left.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Initially, Rabalais is hired as a construction inspector to watch for what at the navigation lock?

3. What does the author observe about historical attempts to control lava?

4. The author retells the time when Raphael G. Kazmann walks out onto the five hundred and sixty-six foot structure over the Old River but leaves quickly because:

5. Every thousand years or so, the Mississippi River goes through a major shift that leaves behind what?

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