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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-20, Clash of Cultures: Deaths From Indian Battles, A Knockout at Bacon Rind: Deaths From Fights, A Death From Diving, Wild Horses: Deaths From Horse, Wagon, and Stagecoach Incidents, Deaths From Accidental and Self Defense Shootings, Malice in.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In two cases deaths were caused by people on the rim of the Grand Canyon doing what?
(a) Dislodging rocks.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Leaning over the edge.

2. Harry Walker, 25, on Friday, ____________________, hitchhiked into Yellowstone Park illegally with his friend 'Crow.'
(a) November 23rd, 1973.
(b) July 23rd, 1973.
(c) June 23rd, 1973.
(d) January 23rd, 1973.

3. Often stagecoaches would wreck due to what?
(a) A broken front axle.
(b) Too much weight.
(c) Wild horses.
(d) Poor terrain.

4. Perhaps the last stagecoach wreck occurred on July 24th, _____________.
(a) 1916.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1916.

5. What had happened to Walker's body?
(a) Surprisingly very little damage was done.
(b) A quarter of it had been eaten by the bear.
(c) It had received many bites.
(d) It had been thrown around, causing him to go unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. ____________ fur trappers were killed in 1839 and two park visitors in 1877.

3. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.

4. A ___________ fire killed Civilian Conservation Corps worker James Hester who lost his life fighting the fire.

5. A self-defense shooting happened in 1886 when stockmen Alex Ferguson and Charles Carpenter had just had a fight about what?

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