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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. From St. Louis down to the Atchafalaya, General Sands takes note of what?
(a) Storms.
(b) Complaints.
(c) Number of bird colonies.
(d) Number of private boats.

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

3. What does James B. Eads invent to explore the Mississippi River?
(a) Underwater camera.
(b) Glass-bottom boat.
(c) Water telescope.
(d) Submarine.

4. When Magnus Magnusson takes the author to visit an old monument in Iceland, what do they do?
(a) Read its inscription and view the landscape.
(b) Carve a new inscription on the monument.
(c) Leave a wreathe and sing a battle song.
(d) Say a prayer for those who died in the eruption.

5. In feet, how long is the towboat Mississippi?
(a) 42.
(b) 23.
(c) 459.
(d) 217.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?

2. What is the purpose of the debris basins that line the San Gabriel Mountains?

3. When was the Kent, a small towboat used by the U.S. Army Corps, put into service?

4. What does Major General Thomas Sands do each year on the Mississippi in late summer or early fall?

5. When a debris flow crashes into the Genofiles' house, what pours through their home?

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