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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. Whittlesey discusses avoidable deaths due to what regarding bears?
(a) Hunting bears.
(b) Feeding bears.
(c) Petting bears.
(d) Getting unjustifiably close to bears.

2. 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.

3. Full board walkways were not introduced into thermal areas until the __________.
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1950s.

4. When bears attack, are they at fault?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Usually.
(d) Yes.

5. The men had foolishly camped near __________________ by the Grand Geyser.
(a) Upper Geyser Basin.
(b) Turban Geyser.
(c) Vent Geyser.
(d) Old Faithful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were this many people injured?

2. A death due to a bear that cannot be cross-checked occurred in __________.

3. Harry Walker, 25, on Friday, ____________________, hitchhiked into Yellowstone Park illegally with his friend 'Crow.'

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

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

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