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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the Board of Review?
2. What began to happen at Mann Gulch forty years later?
3. Where did Maclean and his brother-in-law first go to view Mann Gulch?
4. What did Maclean and the others agree was the second key point on the hillside they needed to locate?
5. What time was recorded on the watch found near the bodies?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Maclean mean when he said, "viewing total conflagration is literally blinding, as sight becomes sound."
2. To what did the author compare the cloud of smoke atop the Mann Gulch fire when the blowup rose out of the gulch?
3. What happened to the men when they left the foreman, Dodge, at the site of the escape fire? What name did the author give to the point at which the men left? From what perspective did the author tell the story of their assent?
4. What two emotions governed the analysis of the tragedy at Mann Gulch? How did Maclean describe the first emotion among the men in Mann Gulch?
5. What does Maclean believe has become the symbol of fear in the late twentieth century? What artist does he site as support for this claim?
6. What did the land in Mann Gulch look like in the aftermath of the fire?
7. Whom did Maclean find at the Hoerner Waldorf-Champion paper mill? What information did this person give Maclean to move him along in his search for Sallee and Rumsey?
8. Why did both parents and the Forest Service hope for silence after the court judgments concerning suits filed against the Forest Service?
9. When did Maclean begin research on the Mann Gulch fire? What where his first steps?
10. As Maclean began his comparison of the Smokejumpers' run to the top of the ridge to a race run on a track, how did he compare the race run by the Smokejumpers and that of the athlete on a track?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maclean and Laird Richardson developed three main questions for which they would seek answers during their study of the Mann Gulch fire. What were those three questions, and did the two men find the answers? If so, what were the answers they found?
Essay Topic 2
Point of view is important in any storytelling. What is this story's point of view? Does the author display particular bias toward one theory or another? One group or another? Has Maclean been trustworthy as a storyteller? Discuss using examples.
Essay Topic 3
Maclean discussed different types of fires in his story and explains that these different fires converged at Mann Gulch. How did Maclean explain the Mann Gulch fire in terms of types of fires? Why is it important to the credibility of the story to understand different types of fires?
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