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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?
(a) Floating among trees under silently flying birds.
(b) The water rushing through locks and gates.
(c) His first encounter with a baby alligator.
(d) Seeing lightning bugs for the first time.

2. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?
(a) Leave a wreathe and sing a battle song.
(b) Carve a new inscription on the monument.
(c) Say a prayer for those who died in the eruption.
(d) Read its inscription and view the landscape.

3. How much water is pumped onto a lava field directly in the path of the moving mountain headed towards Heimaey's town and harbor?
(a) Thirty million gallons.
(b) Thirty trillion gallons.
(c) Three hundred thousand gallons.
(d) Three thousand gallons.

4. For the most part, residents of Heimaey are what during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Panicked.
(c) Calm.
(d) Frightened.

5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?
(a) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.
(b) Protect the fish population of the Atchfalaya River.
(c) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.
(d) Control natural shifts of the Mississippi River.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hawaiian Research Association forms for what purpose?

2. After being hosed down, how long does it take for red-hot lava to turn black?

3. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?

4. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?

5. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?

(see the answer key)

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