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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 feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?
(a) 42.
(b) 217.
(c) 23.
(d) 459.
2. When does hot lava stop glowing red?
(a) Below fifteen hundred degrees.
(b) When the air temperature is minus twenty.
(c) Below thirty-five hundred degrees.
(d) When it hits an iceberg.
3. When the author asks several individuals why people buy homes in dangerous areas of Southern California, one of the answers he receives is that:
(a) New home buyers don't know the history of the area.
(b) There are dangers anywhere people live.
(c) People are naive and ignorant, and they choose to live in denial.
(d) Newcomers are willing to put their lives in danger for the opportunity to live there.
4. In Southern California, the author interviews Charles Colver, who is a member of a:
(a) Team of engineers opposed to debris basins.
(b) Citrus-growing family.
(c) Movie-making studio.
(d) Conservation group.
5. In 1973, what happens to the Old River Control structure despite engineers drilling it and filling it with cement?
(a) The structure is knocked down and rebuilt.
(b) The entire project is cancelled.
(c) The foundation is eroded and undermined.
(d) Funding to strengthen the structure is cut.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many people perish in the same debris flow that crashes into the Genofile family's house?
2. Initially, Rabalais is hired as a construction inspector to watch for what at the navigation lock?
3. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?
4. The author retells the time when Raphael G. Kazmann walks out onto the five hundred and sixty-six foot structure over the Old River but leaves quickly because:
5. The author states that these man-made objects are dragged down the mountain by the debris flow towards the Genofile family's home:
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