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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. In 1937, a horrible fire killed fifteen __________________ and injured thirty-nine others.
(a) Boy Scouts.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Firefighters.
(d) Loggers.

2. ______________________ occur in Yellowstone nearly every day but no known deaths have been caused by them.
(a) Storms.
(b) Fires.
(c) Earthquakes.
(d) Hurricanes.

3. Whittlesey understands that humans want to do what regarding large animals?
(a) Hug them.
(b) Touch them.
(c) Run away from them.
(d) Kill them.

4. The two naturally occurring poisonous gases in Yellowstone are _____________________.
(a) Hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.
(b) Nitrous oxide and perfluorocarbons.
(c) Sulphur hexafluoride and carbon dioxide.
(d) Nitrous oxide and hydrogen sulphide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How deep is this dangerous lake in some places?

2. When was Walker's body found?

3. The National Park Service solved many of these problems by doing what?

4. Two hard-and-fast rules in Yellowstone are what?

5. Sometimes the temperature in Yellowstone falls to______________ degrees below zero.

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