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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. How many bowl-shaped excavations line the San Gabriel Mountains to catch debris falling from the mountains?
(a) Two hundred and nine.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Sixty-four.
(d) One hundred and twenty.

2. Congress mandates that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the Mississippi and tributaries in order to assure and improve what?
(a) Water rights.
(b) Farmland irrigation.
(c) Aquatic recreation.
(d) Inland navigation.

3. How do the returning residents benefit from the cooled but still hot lava rocks on Vestmannaeyjar?
(a) The heat provides protection against invaders.
(b) Lava rocks are used to create healing hot springs.
(c) The rocks are used for heating purposes.
(d) Heat from the rocks promotes growth of beneficial bacteria.

4. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?
(a) Concrete seawalls.
(b) Drought conditions.
(c) Prosperous economic boom.
(d) Extended, raised levees.

5. 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) People are naive and ignorant, and they choose to live in denial.
(b) New home buyers don't know the history of the area.
(c) Newcomers are willing to put their lives in danger for the opportunity to live there.
(d) There are dangers anywhere people live.

Short Answer Questions

1. The citrus groves that once occupied the space at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains have been replaced by:

2. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?

3. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:

4. What nickname do the residents of Heimaey give to Sveinn Eiriksson?

5. After Bob Genofile is rescued, why does he rebuild his home in the same place?

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