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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. Sigurdur Jonsson is an Iceland resident who works on what?
(a) Fishing boats.
(b) Polar bear protection.
(c) Pumping crews.
(d) Tourism.
2. On January 23, 1973, the five thousand residents of Heimaey, the only populated island of Vestmannaeyjar, are threatened by what?
(a) Lava.
(b) War.
(c) Cracking ice shelf.
(d) Flu epidemic.
3. As the author surveys a one-street neighborhood named Pasadena Glen going up a mountainside in Southern California, what does he compare it to?
(a) Ski trail.
(b) Tropical river.
(c) Bobsled run.
(d) Desert road.
4. What does Magnus Magnusson tell Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson to protect first during the eruptions of 1973?
(a) Harbor.
(b) City.
(c) Fisheries.
(d) Canneries.
5. How tall are the highest peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains?
(a) Fourteen thousand feet.
(b) Eighteen thousand feet.
(c) Seven thousand feet.
(d) Ten thousand feet.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author asserts that due to floods in the region, Louisiana loses how much land each year?
2. Of the Old River Control Project, LeRoy Dugas, also known as Dugie, is what initially?
3. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?
4. Who is Raphael G. Kazmann?
5. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
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