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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 are residents of French Acadia called?
(a) Francadians.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Mississipiuns.
(d) Arcadians.

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

3. After work crews deal with the moving mountain on Iceland's erupting island, what challenge do they face?
(a) Pumps that fail due to excessive heat.
(b) Orders from Iceland's government to stop all cooling efforts.
(c) New lava flow that threatens the town.
(d) Blinding blizzard that buries the equipment.

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

5. In gallons, how much water is pumped onto the lava flows of Heimaey each day?
(a) Thirteen hundred.
(b) Thirty thousand.
(c) Thirty million.
(d) Thirteen thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author visits Vestmannaeyjar, what does he notice?

2. When the author recounts the moments before the 1973 eruption in Heimaey, he describes what?

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

4. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?

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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