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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Today Yellowstone sees between zero and five ________ deaths a year.
(a) Plane.
(b) Auto.
(c) Shooting.
(d) Drowning.

2. What is known about these early incidents?
(a) Absolutely nothing.
(b) Little.
(c) Quite a bit.
(d) A great deal.

3. Charles Kenck and Richard Dietrch were killed by the ________________ in 1877 though this was due to an invasion into their territory.
(a) Shoshones.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Wyandots.
(d) Nez Perce.

4. Seven people have died from ______________ poisoning.
(a) Carbon dioxide.
(b) Nitrous oxide.
(c) Carbon monoxide.
(d) Hydrogen dioxide.

5. Prevailing winds can produce waves __________________ feet high.
(a) Four to five.
(b) Five to six.
(c) Three to four.
(d) Two to three.

6. National parks are valuable but what?
(a) The wild creates danger.
(b) They are expensive.
(c) The wild can be tamed.
(d) They are beautiful.

7. Most deaths are due to what regarding this lake?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Diving.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Boating.

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

9. In the army era of 1886-_________, the snow was very deep.
(a) 1918.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1898.

10. Most of the river drownings are due to what?
(a) Storms.
(b) Extreme currents and rapids.
(c) Intoxicated swimmers.
(d) Deep water.

11. _____________ people have died from accidental and self-defense shooting.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Four.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Seven.

12. In 1937, a horrible fire killed fifteen __________________ and injured thirty-nine others.
(a) Firefighters.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Loggers.
(d) Boy Scouts.

13. Phillip Bassett died on May 1st, 1884 from what?
(a) An overdose of morphine.
(b) Shooting himself.
(c) An unknown poison.
(d) Stabbing himself.

14. Many of the earliest deaths in Yellowstone come from what?
(a) Battles with Native Americans.
(b) Bison attacks.
(c) Bear attacks.
(d) Battles between soldiers.

15. A park bus driver was killed on August 25th, ____________.
(a) 1931.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. The number of violent deaths in Yellowstone between 1839 and 1993 is over ____________ hundred; adding in auto and snowmobile wrecks, there are another few hundred.

2. One death from _______________ occurred when, on August 15th, 1919, Louis Boatman was touring the park with his aunt and sister and decided to swim in the Yellowstone River.

3. Does the wild does care whether you live or die?

4. A bicycle and _____________ killed Eliis Lingard on August 2nd, 1893.

5. The army duty was dreary and in 1911-12 some of the men got what?

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