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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Norris F. Rabalais was born and raised in what Louisiana parish?
(a) Avoyelles.
(b) West Feliciana.
(c) Evangeline.
(d) Concordia.

2. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?
(a) Redirecting it.
(b) Digging channels and ditches.
(c) Cooling it.
(d) Building a metal wall.

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

4. The livelihood of approximately how many people is affected by the Old River Control?
(a) 31 thousand.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 13 hundred.
(d) 3 thousand.

5. What do work crews call the two-million ton floating mountain that breaks off during the 1973 eruptions?
(a) Dettifoss the Mountain.
(b) Flakkarinn the Wanderer.
(c) Haukadalur the Ominous.
(d) Surtsey the Fiery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's role in this book?

2. Henry Shreve changes the Mississippi River by introducing what?

3. Over two centuries of recorded history, Mauna Loa erupts how often on average?

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

5. In "Cooling the Lava," when the author redirects his conversation to Hawaii he talks about the The Hawaiian Research Association which formed in:

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