View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Cooling the Lava," when the author redirects his conversation to Hawaii he talks about the The Hawaiian Research Association which formed in:
(a) 1885.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1956.

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

4. What does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?
(a) Harbor.
(b) Canneries.
(c) City.
(d) Fisheries.

5. After work crews deal with the moving mountain on Iceland's erupting island, what challenge do they face?
(a) Blinding blizzard that buries the equipment.
(b) Orders from Iceland's government to stop all cooling efforts.
(c) New lava flow that threatens the town.
(d) Pumps that fail due to excessive heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. With "City Flow" moving towards them in Heimaey, what do pumping crews do?

2. What position does Magnus Magnusson hold in 1973?

3. How long does the the Mauna Loa eruption of 1984 last?

4. For the most part, residents of Heimaey are what during the 1973 eruptions?

5. Reykjavik is the capital city of what nation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the views of Hawaiian natives towards volcanoes differ from the views of the U.S. Army Air Corps?

2. How do the working crews stop the large chunk of mountain from crashing into Heimaey's town and port?

3. Describe how workers are able to walk upon lava fields as they try to cool down the lava on Heimaey in 1973.

4. Who is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson, and what idea does he come up with?

5. What role does Magnus Magnusson play during the 1973 volcanic eruptions in Heimaey?

6. What is the "City Flow?"

7. How is Heimaey's harbor altered after the eruptions and lava flows of 1973?

8. How old are the oldest parts of Hawaii and Iceland?

9. How does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration protect its sensitive, expensive equipment against damaging lava in Hawaii?

10. What is the population of Iceland's Heimaey before and after the 1973 eruptions?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 846 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample