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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. Kirwan yelled, '______________' in response.
(a) Like hell I won't.
(b) I will.
(c) I don't have time.
(d) You hurry up.

2. Yellowstone has only _______ of these dangerous species.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

3. In most Yellowstone cases, the author argues, the ______________ are simply incorrect that the injury or death suffered was a true accident.
(a) Park rangers.
(b) Families.
(c) Victims.
(d) Locals.

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

5. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?
(a) Pump IV fluids into his body.
(b) Give him a large bandage.
(c) Give him glasses of water.
(d) Surgically remove the burned skin.

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. Where does the judge want fencing?

3. Only _______________ hundred of the world's three hundred thousand species of plans have caused death or serious illness to those in the western hemisphere.

4. Because Walker and Crow hitchhiked in illegally, what did they miss?

5. How did the bear react to Walker's actions?

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