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

2. In most Yellowstone cases, the author argues, the ______________ are simply incorrect that the injury or death suffered was a true accident.
(a) Park rangers.
(b) Victims.
(c) Locals.
(d) Families.

3. While they view the springs, Ratliff's dog 'Mossie', a large Mastiff, escaped from the car and jumped into Celestine Pool, which routinely measures _______ degrees Fahrenheit.
(a) 148.
(b) 202.
(c) 184.
(d) 102.

4. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.
(a) Art.
(b) Doctoral.
(c) Med.
(d) Law.

5. The worst accident happened June 28th, __________, when Andy C. Hect, 9, was walking with his family along Crested Pool near Old Faithful.
(a) 1970.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?

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

3. What soon happened when Kirwan got out of the water?

4. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.

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

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