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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Bob and Jackie Genofile live?
(a) In Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
(b) Atop a gentle Hollywood hill.
(c) At the base of a gentle Hollywood hill.
(d) Up high in the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles.

2. When the author recounts the moments before the 1973 eruption in Heimaey, he describes what?
(a) A loud, deep sound emanating from the volcano.
(b) An uncanny silence settling over the land.
(c) A violent shaking of the ground.
(d) Vibrations that are not unusual for the region.

3. The Old River Control began its operations in what year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1963.

4. Sympathetically, who does McPhee blame for destructive actions against the natural order of the environment?
(a) Foreign policy.
(b) Man.
(c) The Executive branch of government.
(d) The United Nations.

5. What river does the author mention that connects the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi to form an H?
(a) Black River.
(b) New River.
(c) Old River.
(d) Red River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heimaey is about the same size as:

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

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

4. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?

5. Even though Los Angeles gets less rainfall than other major cities do, the rain it does get can fall:

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