View a FREE sample

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. One of the worst things about falling into the spring is realizing what?
(a) One could remain fully conscious for hours awaiting death.
(b) One could become blind.
(c) One could die instantly.
(d) One could get second degree burns.

2. 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) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

3. Kirwan prepared to go in the spring and a bystander yelled what?
(a) To test the temperature of the water.
(b) Not to do so.
(c) To be careful.
(d) To hurry up.

4. Other people added their injuries to his campaign and it resulted in increased funding for what and more warnings in handout literature?
(a) Park rangers.
(b) Trails.
(c) Regional safety officers.
(d) Fences around hot springs and geysers.

5. Kirwan yelled, '______________' in response.
(a) I don't have time.
(b) I will.
(c) You hurry up.
(d) Like hell I won't.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Two women died in __________________ in 1901 though the park ranger failed to reported it.

4. Surprisingly, hot springs deaths occur more often than _________________ deaths.

5. Ultimately Kirwan had third degree burns on ______________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 254 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample