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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. Because Walker and Crow hitchhiked in illegally, what did they miss?
(a) The standard warning literature.
(b) The chance to see a live bear.
(c) The chance to purchase a camp site.
(d) The bear-proof containers for holding food.

2. Two hard-and-fast rules in Yellowstone are what?
(a) To not go near thermal areas and to stay in your tent at night.
(b) To keep children in sight and to never bring pets.
(c) To not walk or ski in a thermal area in dark or blizzard conditions and to always camp in your assigned backcountry site.
(d) To follow marked trails only and to avoid leaving food in open containers.

3. Death in Yellowstone covers ____________ hundred deaths and each one was a very emotional story for someone, so the author has tried to be delicate.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

4. However, the Yellowstone River has claimed ____________________ lives.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Fifty-one.
(c) Forty-one.
(d) Thirty-one.

5. How deep is this dangerous lake in some places?
(a) 450 feet deep.
(b) 750 feet deep.
(c) 350 feet deep.
(d) 45 feet deep.

Short Answer Questions

1. When should you not go out in the boat?

2. Whittlesey understands that humans want to do what regarding large animals?

3. Horse and stage coach accidents were fairly common, about _________ times more common than auto accidents today.

4. How did Jack Davis die?

5. There was a special case of a man and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Dunn, who did what on July 13th, 1924?

(see the answer key)

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