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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. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Thirty-nine.
(c) Fifty-nine.
(d) Nineteen.

2. The two naturally occurring poisonous gases in Yellowstone are _____________________.
(a) Nitrous oxide and hydrogen sulphide.
(b) Hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.
(c) Sulphur hexafluoride and carbon dioxide.
(d) Nitrous oxide and perfluorocarbons.

3. Sometimes the temperature in Yellowstone falls to______________ degrees below zero.
(a) 40-60.
(b) 20-30.
(c) 30-40.
(d) 10-20.

4. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.
(a) Influenza outbreak.
(b) Malarial.
(c) Wrongful death and personal injury.
(d) Automobile accident.

5. What would cost $3,000?
(a) Catching the bears to put them in pens.
(b) Tracking one bear.
(c) Sending the bears away.
(d) Euthanizing the bears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. R.N. Adams died on December 18th, 1900 while trying to do what?

2. What did the bear do with Walker?

3. What had happened to Walker's body?

4. How does the author suggest that people get more in touch with nature?

5. The first documented death occurred in __________, a man by the name of Frank Welch, 61.

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