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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While aboard the Mississippi on his annual trip, General Sands tries to:
(a) Generate new contracts.
(b) Settle differences.
(c) Fine environmentalists.
(d) Capture poachers.

2. During the fifty years between New Orleans' floods of 1735 and 1785, what does the author say brings a false sense of security against flooding?
(a) Concrete seawalls.
(b) Drought conditions.
(c) Extended, raised levees.
(d) Prosperous economic boom.

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

4. What does "City Flow" do in Heimaey?
(a) Crushes houses in its path.
(b) Kills twenty-nine workers.
(c) Melts the moving mountain.
(d) Moves lava streams away from the town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Valdimar Jonsson is a professor of what?

2. In the early 1800s, private plantation owners in Louisiana levee riverbanks to:

3. Initially, Rabalais is hired as a construction inspector to watch for what at the navigation lock?

4. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?

5. A snagboat is a river boat that does what?

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