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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the ladder company do to get to the source of the smoke at the Charlotte Street fire?
(a) Broke down all the doors inside.
(b) Ripped holes in the wall.
(c) Ventilated the roof.
(d) Broke the windows.

2. What was the first call the department took the day after the Saint Patrick's Day parade?
(a) A stove fire.
(b) A child locked inside an apartment alone.
(c) An overflowing bathtub flooding an apartment beneath.
(d) A child locked inside a bathroom alone.

3. Why did Smith's mother hide the television under a bedspread?
(a) She did not want her children watching TV.
(b) The TV was broken.
(c) Welfare recipients were not allowed to have TVs or phones.
(d) She was afraid the TV would be stolen.

4. What happened to the young man seen running from the Kelly Street apartment?
(a) He was pronouced DOA at the hospital.
(b) He made a full recovery.
(c) He fled and never went to the hospital.
(d) He was burned over 70 percent of his body.

5. According to the film Smith saw at a recent science fair, how much bigger than the earth is the sun?
(a) 150 times.
(b) 200 times.
(c) 110 times.
(d) 50 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before discovering the culprit, how did Smith describe the fatal fire on Kelly Street?

2. Approximately how many firefighters died each year in New York at the time the book was written?

3. Why do some kids pull false fire alarms, according to the book?

4. How did Smith march in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chapter 6?

5. How would firefighters have designed a building differently to make firefighting easier, according to Smith?

(see the answer key)

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