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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Washingtonville's main claim to historical significance?
(a) The town was a stopping point on the Underground Railroad.
(b) The town was attacked by Confederate forces during the Civil War.
(c) The town was founded by freed slaves.
(d) The town participated in the Revolutionary War.

2. How did Smith feel when first approached about writing a memoir of firefighting?
(a) Concerned that he would be incapable of writing.
(b) Concerned that he did not know enough about firefighting.
(c) Challenged by the act of writing the way climbers are challenged by mountains.
(d) Convinced that people would never understand firefighters.

3. What happened when two of the fire trucks collided while responding to a call in Chapter 4?
(a) A civilian vehicle collided with the trucks.
(b) A bystander was injured.
(c) A bicyclist hit one of the trucks.
(d) A firefighter hanging on the back of one truck was badly injured.

4. Which two companies were prohibited from responding to the same fire under the new plan?
(a) 82 and 85.
(b) 82 and 92.
(c) 82 and 90.
(d) 85 and 87.

5. What two famous people once ran for Mayor and City Council President?
(a) Woody Allen and Philip Roth.
(b) Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin.
(c) Woody Allen and Jimmy Breslin.
(d) Woody Allen and Normal Mailer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do arsonists sometimes do when they leave the scene of a fire?

2. What did Smith consider the most admirable characteristic of firefighters?

3. What were the "high incidence hours" that Tactical Control Unit 712 became responsible for?

4. In Smith's description, how does the life of a firefighter differ from that of other city workers?

5. Which writer once suggested that the story finds the author?

(see the answer key)

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