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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Human Deaths from Bears and How to Keep Them From Happening.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the bear do with Walker?
(a) It ran away from him.
(b) It dragged him away.
(c) It bit him.
(d) It ignored him.

2. Nineteen have died due to hot springs and ______________ were children.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) None.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

3. Whittlesey then discusses the case of John Mark Williams, who is the only person to die in a hot springs when?
(a) In the spring.
(b) In the summer.
(c) In the winter.
(d) In the fall.

4. Walker pointed what at the bear?
(a) A cooking utensil.
(b) His gun.
(c) His flashlight.
(d) A knife.

5. The author notes that even the very experienced, like his friend Randy Ingersoll, a fifteen year veteran ________________ in Yellowstone, was severely injured by a bear.
(a) Camper.
(b) Veterinarian.
(c) Ranger.
(d) Tour guide.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What had happened to Walker's body?

3. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.

4. What would cost $3,000?

5. On July 20th, _________, David Allen Kirwan, 24, and his friend, Ronald Ratliff, 25, parked at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot.

(see the answer key)

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