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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 the San Dimas Experimental Forest, Wade Wells is a:
(a) Hydrologist.
(b) Quality control engineer.
(c) Concrete expert.
(d) Forest ranger.

2. The author states that how much of New Orleans lies fifteen feet below sea level?
(a) All of it.
(b) One quarter.
(c) Half.
(d) Ten percent.

3. Carl Gunn, a retiree living in a small house at the base of a steep slope in Southern California, says he likes living there because of what?
(a) Good climate.
(b) Privacy and view.
(c) Abundance of nature.
(d) Friendly neighbors.

4. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson decides to try to stop the chunk of mountain moving towards Heimaey's town and harbor by:
(a) Ordering a plane to drop a bomb on the mountain.
(b) Blocking the mountain with a natural barrier of cooled lava.
(c) Pumping seawater directly onto the mountain.
(d) Blowing up the mountain with a thousand sticks of dynamite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people perish in the same debris flow that crashes into the Genofile family's house?

2. How tall are the highest peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains?

3. What problems are encountered with Southern California's early debris basins?

4. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

5. The author learns that populations increased greatly in Southern California upon the arrival of what?

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