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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-20, Clash of Cultures: Deaths From Indian Battles, A Knockout at Bacon Rind: Deaths From Fights, A Death From Diving, Wild Horses: Deaths From Horse, Wagon, and Stagecoach Incidents, Deaths From Accidental and Self Defense Shootings, Malice in.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused most trees to fall down?
(a) Lightning, earthquakes, and floods.
(b) Windstorms, hailstorms, and snowstorms.
(c) Floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
(d) Windstorms, logging and rotting trees.

2. Mrs. Joseph Lippman was killed in ___________ when their stagecoach struck a rock on the road and flipped over.
(a) 1929.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1909.

3. A ___________ fire killed Civilian Conservation Corps worker James Hester who lost his life fighting the fire.
(a) 1920.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1930.

4. Perhaps the last stagecoach wreck occurred on July 24th, _____________.
(a) 1916.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1896.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The era of drowning began in the __________________, when many private boats and boat rentals occurred there.

2. The Shoshones and Bannocks lived to the ___________________.

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

4. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.

5. Death in Yellowstone covers ____________ hundred deaths and each one was a very emotional story for someone, so the author has tried to be delicate.

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