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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After work crews deal with the moving mountain on Iceland's erupting island, what challenge do they face?
(a) Orders from Iceland's government to stop all cooling efforts.
(b) Pumps that fail due to excessive heat.
(c) Blinding blizzard that buries the equipment.
(d) New lava flow that threatens the town.

3. With "City Flow" moving towards them in Heimaey, what do pumping crews do?
(a) Dismantle and move equipment to save it.
(b) Abandon efforts and run away.
(c) Send an emergency request for more crews and equipment.
(d) Board a ship and leave.

4. What is Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's idea to stop the flow of lava?
(a) Digging channels and ditches.
(b) Building a metal wall.
(c) Cooling it.
(d) Redirecting it.

5. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
(a) Workers can't get close enough.
(b) The Corps' loses funding.
(c) The sensors melt.
(d) The volcano stops erupting.

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

7. During Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson's test run to cool lava by the coastline, what happens?
(a) Lava cools slightly, but it doesn't solidify.
(b) Water evaporates before it can solidify lava.
(c) Water solidifies lava, but it doesn't cool completely.
(d) Lava cools completely and stops flowing.

8. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson is a native of which country?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Finland.

9. When workers in Vestmannaeyjar hose down lava, why do they keep moving?
(a) Because the lava flow keeps shifting.
(b) To cool down other parts of the flow.
(c) To stay warm in the cold climate.
(d) To keep their boots from burning up.

10. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?
(a) Command-post bomb shelter.
(b) Storm-monitoring communication headquarters.
(c) Volcano eruption monitoring station.
(d) Natural disaster preparedness center.

11. How tall does the erupting volcano in Heimaey grow to above sea level?
(a) Three thousand feet.
(b) One thousand two hundred feet.
(c) One hundred feet.
(d) Seven hundred feet.

12. What ultimately happens to the moving piece of mountain on Vestmannaeyjar?
(a) Breaks up into smaller, non-moving pieces.
(b) Falls into the ocean.
(c) Hits another mountain and stops.
(d) Completely destroys the town and stops.

13. When the author visits Vestmannaeyjar, what does he notice?
(a) Most residents have moved out.
(b) Steam still rises from the ground.
(c) No polar bears are left.
(d) Few survived the flu epidemic.

14. What nickname do the residents of Heimaey give to Sveinn Eiriksson?
(a) Patton.
(b) Grant.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Powell.

15. Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson decides to try to stop the chunk of mountain moving towards Heimaey's town and harbor by:
(a) Pumping seawater directly onto the mountain.
(b) Blowing up the mountain with a thousand sticks of dynamite.
(c) Ordering a plane to drop a bomb on the mountain.
(d) Blocking the mountain with a natural barrier of cooled lava.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "City Flow" do in Heimaey?

2. Officials propose to protect Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city and port, against lava flows through what?

3. Sveinn Eiriksson is a man of:

4. When the author walks the streets of Iceland's Heimaey years after the 1973 eruption, what does he see?

5. The oldest parts of Iceland are how old?

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