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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14, Fatal Attraction: Deaths From Falls, Deaths From Forest Fires: Smoke Chasing Can Kill, The Gloom of Earthquakes: Shaky Breaky Park, Danger in the Water: Deaths From Drowning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused most trees to fall down?
(a) Floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
(b) Windstorms, logging and rotting trees.
(c) Windstorms, hailstorms, and snowstorms.
(d) Lightning, earthquakes, and floods.

2. Why has Yellowstone never been extensively logged for timber?
(a) The trees are of poor quality.
(b) it was set aside by Congress before settlers arrived.
(c) There is not a great amount of wood available.
(d) There is no need for the wood at Yellowstone.

3. Lester LaDuke, aged 4, died at _____________ Hot Springs on July 23rd, 1905.
(a) Geyser.
(b) Mammoth.
(c) LaDuke.
(d) Old Yeller.

4. A ________________ soldier drowned due to falling in the water and another died from falling due to intoxication.
(a) Deserting.
(b) New.
(c) Dying.
(d) Fighting.

5. In ____________, Walter Watson died by falling in a deep geyser tube.
(a) 1942.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most drownings have occurred in __________________ Lake and arguably no body of water in the Park (and probably in the whole United States) is more potentially dangerous.

2. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.

3. It is more common than one would think in Montana, but not ______________.

4. The injuries began early, at least in _________ when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the area.

5. Two women died in __________________ in 1901 though the park ranger failed to reported it.

(see the answer key)

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