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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. Vito Vanoni is a civil engineering professor in Southern California who asserts that:
(a) People are not safely protected by debris basins.
(b) Debris basins can stand up to any natural disaster.
(c) People are well protected by debris basins.
(d) Debris basins will crumble in strong earthquakes.

2. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?
(a) 42.
(b) 23.
(c) 459.
(d) 217.

3. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
(a) Heimaey will become a ghost town.
(b) Helgafell will erupt.
(c) Iceland will break in half.
(d) Vestmannaeyjar will fall into the sea.

4. Where do Bob and Jackie Genofile live?
(a) Atop a gentle Hollywood hill.
(b) At the base of a gentle Hollywood hill.
(c) Up high in the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles.
(d) In Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.

5. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?
(a) Barriers.
(b) Careful monitoring.
(c) Plexiglass shields.
(d) Relocation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When a debris flow crashes into the Genofiles' house, what pours through their home?

4. In 1973, what happens to the Old River Control structure despite engineers drilling it and filling it with cement?

5. Heimaey is about the same size as:

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