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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. ______________________ occur in Yellowstone nearly every day but no known deaths have been caused by them.
(a) Fires.
(b) Storms.
(c) Earthquakes.
(d) Hurricanes.
2. When did the first two drownings occur?
(a) In 1873.
(b) In 1883.
(c) In 1893.
(d) In 1783.
3. 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.
(a) Yellowstone.
(b) Lamar.
(c) Heart.
(d) Lower.
4. Today Yellowstone sees between zero and five ________ deaths a year.
(a) Plane.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Shooting.
(d) Auto.
5. Horse and stage coach accidents were fairly common, about _________ times more common than auto accidents today.
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.
6. How does Whittlesey think Piper died?
(a) From falling into the canyon.
(b) From a plant poison.
(c) From being eaten by a bear.
(d) From falling into a hot spring and disintegrating.
7. During a later physical fight, Zutavern starting beating Weber with a rock. How did Weber respond?
(a) He hit Zutavern with another rock.
(b) He started screaming.
(c) By shooting Zutavern in the left breast.
(d) He stabbed Zutavern.
8. It is _____________ that forest fires take lives in Yellowstone.
(a) Not uncommon.
(b) Constant.
(c) Rare.
(d) Frequent.
9. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.
(a) Fifty-nine.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Nineteen.
10. A self-defense shooting happened in 1886 when stockmen Alex Ferguson and Charles Carpenter had just had a fight about what?
(a) Carpenter's cattle being on Ferguson's land.
(b) Ferguson's cattle being on Carpenter's land.
(c) Carpenter stealing cattle from Ferguson.
(d) Ferguson stealing cattle from Carpenter.
11. A ___________ fire killed Civilian Conservation Corps worker James Hester who lost his life fighting the fire.
(a) 1920.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1910.
12. The number of violent deaths in Yellowstone between 1839 and 1993 is over ____________ hundred; adding in auto and snowmobile wrecks, there are another few hundred.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Nine.
13. One of the more interesting stories occurred when an Army soldier was shot by whom?
(a) A fellow soldier.
(b) A park ranger.
(c) His superior.
(d) A Native American.
14. Regarding this balance, which way does the author believe our culture errs?
(a) Too far towards the former and away from the latter.
(b) Too far towards the latter and away from the former.
(c) Sometimes towards the latter and sometimes the former.
(d) In neither direction.
15. Who does the author fear will destroy the park?
(a) The government.
(b) The park rangers.
(c) Irresponsible, litigious park visitors.
(d) The animals.
Short Answer Questions
1. Charles Kenck and Richard Dietrch were killed by the ________________ in 1877 though this was due to an invasion into their territory.
2. Seven people have died from ______________ poisoning.
3. Often stagecoaches would wreck due to what?
4. Mrs. Louis Helbut died in _______________ from fainting.
5. Most deaths are due to what regarding this lake?
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