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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 does Major General Thomas Sands do each year on the Mississippi in late summer or early fall?
(a) Hosts the Water Recreation Festival.
(b) Takes a Low Water Inspection Trip.
(c) Conducts Homeland Security military exercises.
(d) Trains new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recruits.

2. 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 trillion gallons.
(b) Three hundred thousand gallons.
(c) Three thousand gallons.
(d) Thirty million gallons.

3. A snagboat is a river boat that does what?
(a) Transports workers from one town to another.
(b) Removes obstructions from rivers.
(c) Carries large logs to sawmills.
(d) Pulls barges through turbulent water.

4. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?
(a) Farmland irrigation.
(b) Aquatic recreation.
(c) Inland navigation.
(d) Water rights.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?

2. The author states that how much of New Orleans lies fifteen feet below sea level?

3. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?

4. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?

5. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson decides to try to stop the chunk of mountain moving towards Heimaey's town and harbor by:

(see the answer key)

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