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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-10,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.
(a) Malarial.
(b) Automobile accident.
(c) Wrongful death and personal injury.
(d) Influenza outbreak.

2. The National Park Service solved many of these problems by doing what?
(a) Warning people of the dangers of trees.
(b) Passing out hardhats to all visitors.
(c) Fencing in the forests.
(d) Cutting down many trees.

3. What caused most trees to fall down?
(a) Windstorms, logging and rotting trees.
(b) Lightning, earthquakes, and floods.
(c) Floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
(d) Windstorms, hailstorms, and snowstorms.

4. 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?
(a) President of the U.S.
(b) The Secretary of State.
(c) The Secretary of the Interior.
(d) The Secretary of Defense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sometimes the temperature in Yellowstone falls to______________ degrees below zero.

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

3. Whittelsey was a ___________________ at the time.

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

5. At least ___________ people have died from lightning strikes throughout the history of Yellowstone.

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