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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. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?
(a) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.
(b) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.
(c) Protect the fish population of the Atchfalaya River.
(d) Control natural shifts of the Mississippi River.

2. In Hawaii, how many volcanoes are there within the group that includes Mauna Loa?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

3. What does the 1927 flood in Louisiana teach officials about levees?
(a) More need to be constructed faster.
(b) They work beautifully.
(c) They need to be built taller.
(d) They make the flooding problem worse.

4. By 1812, the east bank of the Mississippi River is levied up to which city?
(a) Shreveport.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Lake Charles.
(d) Alexandria.

5. The oldest parts of Iceland are how old?
(a) One and a half million years.
(b) Twenty-nine million years.
(c) Five millions years.
(d) Fourteen million years.

Short Answer Questions

1. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?

2. What do people do with some of the rocks and boulders that roll down the San Gabriel Mountains?

3. How much money does the Genofile family receive from the county in damages for an improperly designed and maintained basin above their house?

4. Heimaey is about the same size as:

5. After a 6.2 earthquake in 1971, Leon Silver flies over the San Gabriel Mountains and notices what?

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