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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Hold Fast to Your Children: Death in Hot Water, 'These Animals Are Not Real': The Myth That Can Kill You!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On July 20th, _________, David Allen Kirwan, 24, and his friend, Ronald Ratliff, 25, parked at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1891.

2. The injuries began early, at least in _________ when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the area.
(a) 1871.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1817.

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

4. In ____________, Walter Watson died by falling in a deep geyser tube.
(a) 1882.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1942.

5. By 1993, ___________ deaths had occurred because of a bison attack, but the potential for injuries is great.
(a) Only two.
(b) Only one.
(c) None.
(d) Only five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately Kirwan had third degree burns on ______________.

2. The worst accident happened June 28th, __________, when Andy C. Hect, 9, was walking with his family along Crested Pool near Old Faithful.

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

4. Kirwan prepared to go in the spring and a bystander yelled what?

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

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