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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. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.
(a) Skiing.
(b) Wagon wrecks.
(c) Car wrecks.
(d) Iceskating.

2. When should you not go out in the boat?
(a) During storms.
(b) During windy days.
(c) During cold days.
(d) During hot days.

3. Josey fell into a pool trying to help a _________ and was badly burned.
(a) Deer.
(b) Bear.
(c) Dog.
(d) Child.

4. By 1993, ___________ deaths had occurred because of a bison attack, but the potential for injuries is great.
(a) None.
(b) Only one.
(c) Only two.
(d) Only five.

5. How many human deaths have occurred because of poisonous gases?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Only one.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of these deadly plants?

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

3. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.

4. The author notes that even the very experienced, like his friend Randy Ingersoll, a fifteen year veteran ________________ in Yellowstone, was severely injured by a bear.

5. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.

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