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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. A death due to a bear that cannot be cross-checked occurred in __________.
(a) 1907.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1897.

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

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

4. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.
(a) Skiing.
(b) Wagon wrecks.
(c) Car wrecks.
(d) Iceskating.

5. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?
(a) Give him a large bandage.
(b) Give him glasses of water.
(c) Surgically remove the burned skin.
(d) Pump IV fluids into his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is _____________ that forest fires take lives in Yellowstone.

2. On the __________, they saw a grizzly bear rooting through their campsite.

3. Only _______________ hundred of the world's three hundred thousand species of plans have caused death or serious illness to those in the western hemisphere.

4. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.

5. Four have drowned in Yellowstone's __________________ Lake.

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