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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. Why has Yellowstone never been extensively logged for timber?
(a) it was set aside by Congress before settlers arrived.
(b) There is not a great amount of wood available.
(c) The trees are of poor quality.
(d) There is no need for the wood at Yellowstone.

2. It is _____________ that forest fires take lives in Yellowstone.
(a) Constant.
(b) Rare.
(c) Not uncommon.
(d) Frequent.

3. Mrs. Louis Helbut died in _______________ from fainting.
(a) 1898.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1899.

4. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.
(a) Skiing.
(b) Car wrecks.
(c) Wagon wrecks.
(d) Iceskating.

5. Four have drowned in Yellowstone's __________________ Lake.
(a) Lenape.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Black Hawk.
(d) Shoshone.

Short Answer Questions

1. An early death occurred in ____________ due to twenty-year-old John Havekost and his acquaintance Perry Norris.

2. Whittlesey then discusses the case of John Mark Williams, who is the only person to die in a hot springs when?

3. What is one of these deadly plants?

4. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.

5. Because Walker and Crow hitchhiked in illegally, what did they miss?

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