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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14, Fatal Attraction: Deaths From Falls, Deaths From Forest Fires: Smoke Chasing Can Kill, The Gloom of Earthquakes: Shaky Breaky Park, Danger in the Water: Deaths From Drowning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the __________, they saw a grizzly bear rooting through their campsite.
(a) 12th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 24th.
(d) 14th.

2. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 110.
(d) 25.

3. In 1937, a horrible fire killed fifteen __________________ and injured thirty-nine others.
(a) Boy Scouts.
(b) Firefighters.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Loggers.

4. Sometimes the temperature in Yellowstone falls to______________ degrees below zero.
(a) 30-40.
(b) 20-30.
(c) 40-60.
(d) 10-20.

5. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.
(a) Thirty-nine.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty-nine.
(d) Fifty-nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. A death due to a bear that cannot be cross-checked occurred in __________.

2. The injuries began early, at least in _________ when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the area.

3. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.

4. The era of drowning began in the __________________, when many private boats and boat rentals occurred there.

5. More people in Yellowstone have died from _________________ than any other single cause of death save those not included in the book.

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