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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Smith want to re-read the Yeats poem about wise men becoming tense with violence before they can accomplish fate?
(a) He was trying to understand what causes some men to willingly go into burning buildings.
(b) He was trying to understand the situation of people throwing rocks at firefighters.
(c) He was trying to take his mind off his work.
(d) He was preparing another letter to the editor.

2. How do firefighters get enough oxygen when a building is thick with smoke?
(a) By crawling on their stomachs to reach the oxygen at floor level.
(b) By using oxygen tanks.
(c) By breaking out windows to get oxygen in.
(d) By first clearing out some of the smoke.

3. What did the welfare inspector recommend to the welfare agency after the visit?
(a) He recommended an increase in benefits so the family could have more to eat.
(b) He recommended a decrease in benefits when he saw the television.
(c) He recommended no change in benefits.
(d) He recommended an increase in benefits so that the children could get winter coats.

4. What did the naked man on Southern Boulevard wield as a weapon?
(a) A whip.
(b) A butcher knife.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) A handgun.

5. From which service area did Fireman Vinny Royce switch to join Engine Co. 82?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Beford-Stuyvesant.
(c) East Harlem.
(d) Lower East Side.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many calls did Engine Co. 82 respond to the year before the book was written?

2. How did the firefighters save the life of the overdose victim on Hoe Avenue?

3. What did the firefighters find on Freeman Street during one of the calls in Chapter 3?

4. How many injured people were found in the Kelly Street apartment?

5. Why did Smith's mother scold him before he left for work in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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