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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cooling the Lava.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1973 volcanic eruptions, many farmers and fishermen leave Heimaey:
(a) For the first time.
(b) For a day only.
(c) Never to return.
(d) Against their will.

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

3. For the most part, residents of Heimaey are what during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) Panicked.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Calm.

4. Heimaey is about the same size as:
(a) Washington, D.C. east of the Washington Monument.
(b) Seattle west of the Space Needle.
(c) Manhattan south of the Empire State Building.
(d) San Francisco north of Chinatown.

5. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
(a) The Corps' loses funding.
(b) The volcano stops erupting.
(c) The sensors melt.
(d) Workers can't get close enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Norris F. Rabalais was born and raised in what Louisiana parish?

2. How tall does the erupting volcano in Heimaey grow to above sea level?

3. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?

4. Atchafalaya is a what?

5. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?

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