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

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

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

4. 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) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

5. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?
(a) Pump IV fluids into his body.
(b) Surgically remove the burned skin.
(c) Give him a large bandage.
(d) Give him glasses of water.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. One of the worst things about falling into the spring is realizing what?

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

5. In ____________, Walter Watson died by falling in a deep geyser tube.

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