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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Cooling the Lava," when the author redirects his conversation to Hawaii he talks about the The Hawaiian Research Association which formed in:
(a) 1956.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1911.

2. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?
(a) Fills it with boulders.
(b) Bombs it.
(c) Attaches vibration sensors.
(d) Floods it with water.

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

4. Heimaey is about the same size as:
(a) San Francisco north of Chinatown.
(b) Washington, D.C. east of the Washington Monument.
(c) Seattle west of the Space Needle.
(d) Manhattan south of the Empire State Building.

5. The author tells stories of the following people in conflict with forces of nature:
(a) Government officials.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Residents.
(d) All of the them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?

2. What gives Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson the idea to cool the oncoming flow of lava?

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

4. The Hawaiian Research Association forms for what purpose?

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

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