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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Human Deaths from Bears and How to Keep Them From Happening.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the judge want fencing?
(a) Around campgrounds.
(b) Around the entire park.
(c) Around each bear.
(d) Around the bear's habitat.

3. The men had foolishly camped near __________________ by the Grand Geyser.
(a) Upper Geyser Basin.
(b) Turban Geyser.
(c) Old Faithful.
(d) Vent Geyser.

4. How did the bear react to Walker's actions?
(a) It ran the opposite direction.
(b) It charged him.
(c) It swatted at him.
(d) It growled at him.

5. What did Whittlesey think of the judge's request?
(a) Unusual.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Possible.
(d) Expected.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ were injured in the 1930s.

2. Why were this many people injured?

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

4. What did the bear do with Walker?

5. Whittelsey was a ___________________ at the time.

(see the answer key)

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