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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:
(a) Has practically no solid ground.
(b) Belongs to Spain.
(c) Is plagued by giant storms on a weekly basis.
(d) Is full of poisonous snakes.

2. What does the author watch Wade Wells and his assistant Edwin Harp do while working in the San Gabriel Mountains?
(a) Inspect the structural integrity of a basin.
(b) Take soil samples from steep inclines.
(c) Measure the volume of debris caught in a basin.
(d) Plant pine trees to stabilize the soil.

3. When workers in Vestmannaeyjar hose down lava, why do they keep moving?
(a) To keep their boots from burning up.
(b) Because the lava flow keeps shifting.
(c) To stay warm in the cold climate.
(d) To cool down other parts of the flow.

4. What does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?
(a) Fisheries.
(b) City.
(c) Canneries.
(d) Harbor.

5. What are dry winds that cross the Mojave Desert called?
(a) Santa Anas.
(b) Chicarrones.
(c) Santo Domingos.
(d) Chaparrales.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author mentions that when he met Rabalais, he wore what in his pocket?

2. What happens when the north side of the volcanic mountain in Vestmannaeyjar breaks loose?

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

4. As the Genofile family seeks refuge in the parents' bedroom when the debris flow hits their home, what happens?

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

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