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

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

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

4. Josey fell into a pool trying to help a _________ and was badly burned.
(a) Bear.
(b) Deer.
(c) Dog.
(d) Child.

5. Surprisingly, hot springs deaths occur more often than _________________ deaths.
(a) Shooting.
(b) Lightning strike.
(c) Earthquake.
(d) Grizzly bear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Other people added their injuries to his campaign and it resulted in increased funding for what and more warnings in handout literature?

3. Andy's father, named James Hecht, wrote who to encourage him to take positive action and he and his wife organized to make the National Park Service commit to improved safety?

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.

5. Two hard-and-fast rules in Yellowstone are what?

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