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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heimaey is considered to be an important what?
(a) Polar bear sanctuary.
(b) Lumber producer.
(c) Cultural hub.
(d) Fishing center.

2. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?
(a) Old River.
(b) Red River.
(c) New River.
(d) Black River.

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

4. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
(a) Vestmannaeyjar will fall into the sea.
(b) Heimaey will become a ghost town.
(c) Helgafell will erupt.
(d) Iceland will break in half.

5. In the mid-1800s, the United States Congress passes a Swamp and Overflow Land Act to:
(a) Create a new water control system.
(b) Evict land squatters.
(c) Deed swampland to individual states.
(d) Take away ownership rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much water is pumped onto a lava field directly in the path of the moving mountain headed towards Heimaey's town and harbor?

2. Atchafalaya is a what?

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

4. In the spring of 1973, what does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers do to try to alleviate the tremendous force of water against the control structure?

5. When the author recalls his first time in the Atchafalaya swamps with Charles Fryling in 1980, what does he fondly remember?

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