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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Polar bear protection.
(c) Fishing boats.
(d) Pumping crews.

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

3. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1952.

4. What does the U.S. Army Air Corps do to an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935?
(a) Floods it with water.
(b) Fills it with boulders.
(c) Bombs it.
(d) Attaches vibration sensors.

5. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?
(a) Developer of tripod pilings.
(b) Author of Modern Thermodynamics.
(c) Author of Modern Hydrology.
(d) Developer of electromagnetic therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sigurdur Steinthorsson monitor volcanic gases during the 1973 eruption?

2. In New Orleans' earliest days, French settlers begin to live there despite the fact that the area:

3. In gallons, how much water is pumped onto the lava flows of Heimaey each day?

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

5. Of the Old River Control Project, LeRoy Dugas, also known as Dugie, is what initially?

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