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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry Shreve changes the Mississippi River by introducing what?
(a) Gambling along the river.
(b) Vegetation native to Mexico.
(c) New fish breeds.
(d) Mississippi steamboat.

2. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?
(a) Developer of tripod pilings.
(b) Author of Modern Hydrology.
(c) Developer of electromagnetic therapy.
(d) Author of Modern Thermodynamics.

3. In the 1800s, why do levee districts and boards form in Louisiana?
(a) For diplomatic reasons.
(b) To spread levee costs.
(c) To control water levels.
(d) To establish water claims.

4. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?
(a) Blowing up a downstream levee.
(b) Building concrete walls around the city.
(c) Layering sandbags along the riverbanks.
(d) Quickly digging a diversion channel.

5. In the early days of New Orleans, residents build their homes on what?
(a) Concrete risers.
(b) Natural levees.
(c) Sand piles.
(d) Metal bridges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a weir?

2. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?

3. During Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's test run to cool lava by the coastline, what happens?

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

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

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