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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 ultimately happens to the moving piece of mountain on Vestmannaeyjar?
(a) Falls into the ocean.
(b) Hits another mountain and stops.
(c) Completely destroys the town and stops.
(d) Breaks up into smaller, non-moving pieces.

2. To cool the lava flows of 1973, what does Valdimar Jonsson suggest?
(a) Redirecting the flow towards an iceberg.
(b) Using ice and snow.
(c) Using ten times more water.
(d) Stacking ice blocks along the lava's path.

3. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?
(a) 42.
(b) 23.
(c) 459.
(d) 217.

4. The Hawaiian Research Association forms for what purpose?
(a) Revisiting Hawaiian legends to learn more about lava.
(b) Preventing lava from burying cities.
(c) Relocating residents directly in the path of flowing lava.
(d) Studying the nature of lava flows.

5. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?
(a) Lava.
(b) Flu epidemic.
(c) Cracking ice shelf.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a conversation between General Sands and Oliver Houck on a floating conference boat, what does the General remind Houck regarding the vital role of the U.S. Army Corps?

2. When floodwaters cover twenty-six thousand square miles in 1927, how is New Orleans saved?

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

4. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:

5. Valdimar Jonsson is a professor of what?

(see the answer key)

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