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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the eruptions of 1973 end, how many of Heimaey's evacuees return?
(a) Only a handful.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) Half.
(d) All of them.

2. What do doctors dispense to workers who are cooling down the lava in Iceland to soothe their hoarse throats?
(a) Finnish cough drops.
(b) Norwegian chest drops.
(c) Icelandic throat lozenges.
(d) Swedish chest lozenges.

3. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?
(a) Natural disaster preparedness center.
(b) Command-post bomb shelter.
(c) Storm-monitoring communication headquarters.
(d) Volcano eruption monitoring station.

4. Rabalais says he remembers being taught in high school that one day, these would be built:
(a) Lighter and sturdier barges.
(b) Skyscrapers along the river banks.
(c) Ships to travel faster along rivers.
(d) Structures to control water flows.

5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develops a plan to do what?
(a) Protect the fish population of the Atchfalaya River.
(b) Develop communities along the Mississippi River.
(c) Build twenty large dams on the Atchafalaya River.
(d) Control natural shifts of the Mississippi River.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the returning residents benefit from the cooled but still hot lava rocks on Vestmannaeyjar?

2. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?

3. In the spring of 1973, what does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers do to try to alleviate the tremendous force of water against the control structure?

4. During the 1973 volcanic eruptions, many farmers and fishermen leave Heimaey:

5. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?

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