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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author say he saw while fighting the Fish Creek fire?
(a) A house on fire.
(b) Farmers moving their cows.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Lightening strike a tree.

2. What did Maclean and the others agree was the second key point on the hillside they needed to locate?
(a) The spot where the fire blew up.
(b) The spot where Henry Thol, Jr. fell.
(c) The spot where Dodge had started his fire.
(d) The spot where Diettert left Rumsey and Sallee.

3. Who was Hal Samsel?
(a) The Loft foreman and son of a Forest Ranger.
(b) The pilot who dropped the Smokejumpers into Mann Gulch.
(c) The Forest Ranger responsible for guided tours of the gulch.
(d) The spotter on the plane that dropped the Smokejumpers into the gulch.

4. Where did Maclean first go in the hopes of finding Robert Sallee?
(a) A sawmill in Portland.
(b) The University of Montana-Butte.
(c) The personnel office of the Bank of America.
(d) A paper mill near Missoula.

5. How did W.R. Moore assist Maclean in his research about Mann Gulch?
(a) He ordered that all documentation on the fire be sent to the library in Missoula.
(b) He ordered that all Forest Service documents on the fire be available to Maclean.
(c) He ordered that all documentation on the fire be put on the internet.
(d) He ordered that all documents on the fire be sent to Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a crown fire?

2. How many Smokejumpers have died from fire since the Mann Gulch fire?

3. What effect did Dodge's escape fire have on the Mann Gulch fire, according to Maclean?

4. What is a gofer match?

5. Who was C.A. Gustafson?

(see the answer key)

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