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

2. Atchafalaya is a what?
(a) City.
(b) River.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Waterfall.

3. After being hosed down, how long does it take for red-hot lava to turn black?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) A month and a half.
(c) Hours to days.
(d) Two and a half weeks.

4. In the mountains of Southern California, brush fires ignite by:
(a) Spontaneous combustion.
(b) Accident, arson, or lightning.
(c) Accident or spontaneous combustion.
(d) Arson or high temperatures.

5. When does hot lava stop glowing red?
(a) When the air temperature is minus twenty.
(b) Below fifteen hundred degrees.
(c) When it hits an iceberg.
(d) Below thirty-five hundred degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sigurdur Steinthorsson monitor volcanic gases during the 1973 eruption?

2. To cool the lava flows of 1973, what does Valdimar Jonsson suggest?

3. A snagboat is a river boat that does what?

4. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?

5. What does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?

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