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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. New trails were carved for what purpose?
(a) To encourage visitors to go hiking.
(b) To avoid springs and geysers.
(c) To bring visitors closer to the springs and geysers.
(d) To give visitors something to do other than visit springs and geysers.

2. What did the bear do with Walker?
(a) It dragged him away.
(b) It ran away from him.
(c) It bit him.
(d) It ignored him.

3. How does the author suggest that people get more in touch with nature?
(a) By watching nature videos.
(b) By living in the wilderness.
(c) By studying bears.
(d) By learning about it.

4. Because Walker and Crow hitchhiked in illegally, what did they miss?
(a) The chance to purchase a camp site.
(b) The standard warning literature.
(c) The bear-proof containers for holding food.
(d) The chance to see a live bear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kirwan die?

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

3. When was Walker's body found?

4. The first documented death occurred in __________, a man by the name of Frank Welch, 61.

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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