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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14, Fatal Attraction: Deaths From Falls, Deaths From Forest Fires: Smoke Chasing Can Kill, The Gloom of Earthquakes: Shaky Breaky Park, Danger in the Water: Deaths From Drowning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 110.
(d) 25.

2. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.
(a) Art.
(b) Med.
(c) Doctoral.
(d) Law.

3. Two hard-and-fast rules in Yellowstone are what?
(a) To not walk or ski in a thermal area in dark or blizzard conditions and to always camp in your assigned backcountry site.
(b) To follow marked trails only and to avoid leaving food in open containers.
(c) To keep children in sight and to never bring pets.
(d) To not go near thermal areas and to stay in your tent at night.

4. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.
(a) Thirty-nine.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Fifty-nine.
(d) Nineteen.

5. Both gases are found in high concentrations where?
(a) In the thermal areas and the caves.
(b) In the forest and ponds.
(c) In thermal areas and pools of water.
(d) In caves and caverns.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the bear react to Walker's actions?

2. ______________________ occur in Yellowstone nearly every day but no known deaths have been caused by them.

3. Andy's father, named James Hecht, wrote who to encourage him to take positive action and he and his wife organized to make the National Park Service commit to improved safety?

4. What is one of these deadly plants?

5. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.

(see the answer key)

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