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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dodge survive the fire?
(a) By running into an opening in the reef.
(b) By laying face-down in the ashes of his escape fire.
(c) By running through the fire to a cool spot.
(d) By laying face down in the smoldering grass.

2. Who is one of the best bibliographical references about the Mann Gulch fire available to Laird and Maclean?
(a) The head librarian at the local library.
(b) The postmistress of a nearby logging town.
(c) The Forest Service land office manager.
(d) The chief librarian at the New York City Library.

3. What did Gisborne want to do on Mann Gulch?
(a) See the markers of the lost men.
(b) Test a theory of fire whirls.
(c) Examine the area around the river.
(d) See it from a firefighter's point of view.

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

5. When did Dodge return to Missoula?
(a) When he collapsed from exhaustion.
(b) When Jansson ordered him to.
(c) When his wife came to pick him up.
(d) When his crew was all accounted for.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the three men who ran toward the ridge together to escape the fire?

2. Why did Laird Robinson stop smokejumping?

3. Where did the burned and disabled deer die?

4. What does the sculpture at the University of Chicago commemorating the Atomic Age look like?

5. What does "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani" mean?

(see the answer key)

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