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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. As of 1995, ___________________ people have died from falls in Yellowstone, four from man-made structures, three from mounts and the rest into canyons.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty-four.

2. Lester LaDuke, aged 4, died at _____________ Hot Springs on July 23rd, 1905.
(a) LaDuke.
(b) Mammoth.
(c) Old Yeller.
(d) Geyser.

3. 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.

4. Six deadly poisonous ____________________ grow in Yellowstone as well, such as the Death Cap, Destroying Angel, Deadly Concybe, Deadly Cort, Deadly Galerina, and the Conifer False Model.
(a) Beans.
(b) Legumes.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Flowers.

5. Four have drowned in Yellowstone's __________________ Lake.
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Black Hawk.
(c) Lenape.
(d) Shoshone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The two naturally occurring poisonous gases in Yellowstone are _____________________.

2. Whittlesey understands that humans want to do what regarding large animals?

3. What caused most trees to fall down?

4. Nineteen have died due to hot springs and ______________ were children.

5. Harry Walker, 25, on Friday, ____________________, hitchhiked into Yellowstone Park illegally with his friend 'Crow.'

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