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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. Surprisingly, hot springs deaths occur more often than _________________ deaths.
(a) Lightning strike.
(b) Shooting.
(c) Grizzly bear.
(d) Earthquake.

2. Seven have drowned in ________________ Lake.
(a) Lenny.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Levi.

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

4. However, the Yellowstone River has claimed ____________________ lives.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Forty-one.
(d) Fifty-one.

5. When was Walker's body found?
(a) At 5:00 pm.
(b) At 5:00 am.
(c) At 12:00 pm.
(d) At 12:00 am.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stones on hillsides are not stationary and _____________ deaths have been caused in Yellowstone from falling rocks.

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

3. Why has Yellowstone never been extensively logged for timber?

4. On July 20th, _________, David Allen Kirwan, 24, and his friend, Ronald Ratliff, 25, parked at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot.

5. ______________________ occur in Yellowstone nearly every day but no known deaths have been caused by them.

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