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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. What court case was created because of this incident?
(a) A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against park management.
(b) A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against the bear.
(c) A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against the National Park Society.
(d) A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Walker's friend.

2. How deep is this dangerous lake in some places?
(a) 350 feet deep.
(b) 750 feet deep.
(c) 45 feet deep.
(d) 450 feet deep.

3. _________________ 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.

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

5. What soon happened when Kirwan got out of the water?
(a) He died.
(b) His skin was quickly peeling off and he soon went blind.
(c) He passed out.
(d) He was given a medal of honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is more common than one would think in Montana, but not ______________.

2. As _____________ increased, so did the chance of injury.

3. James filed a wrongful death lawsuit and received _______________.

4. In ____________, Walter Watson died by falling in a deep geyser tube.

5. Stones on hillsides are not stationary and _____________ deaths have been caused in Yellowstone from falling rocks.

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