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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling did the Smokejumpers share with all other youth their age?
(a) The feeling that they could be successful firefighters.
(b) The feeling that they were immortal.
(c) The feeling that education was important.
(d) The feeling that their lives would be long.

2. What did Mike Mansfield accomplish for the families of the fallen Smokejumpers?
(a) He added funds to the Forest Service.
(b) He raised the burial allowance from $200 to $400 dollars.
(c) He appointed a special advisor to assess the situation.
(d) He tried to delay the Mann Gulch Report.

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

4. What happened to the Smokejumpers once they left Dodge and his escape fire?
(a) They were certain they would wake from the horrible dream.
(b) They were unaware they were going to die in the fire.
(c) They were without knowledge as to what was happening.
(d) They were without structure and command and free to be afraid.

5. What did Maclean believe were the final cries of the men who died on the ridge?
(a) Ones of self-compassion.
(b) Ones of rage.
(c) Ones of self-pity.
(d) Ones of disbelief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first man to crawl through the crevice at the reef during their escape from the fire?

2. What is "Red Skies of Montana?"

3. Where did the Fish Creek fire actually burn?

4. What did the author feel while he was running away from the Fish Creek fire?

5. What did thinking about the struggle for oxygen that the Smokejumpers' experienced remind the author of?

(see the answer key)

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