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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After escaping to the park, Weber was eventually captured and convicted of what?
(a) Attempted murder.
(b) First-degree murder.
(c) Manslaughter.
(d) Second-degree murder.

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

3. During a later physical fight, Zutavern starting beating Weber with a rock. How did Weber respond?
(a) He started screaming.
(b) He hit Zutavern with another rock.
(c) He stabbed Zutavern.
(d) By shooting Zutavern in the left breast.

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

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

6. A bicycle and _____________ killed Eliis Lingard on August 2nd, 1893.
(a) A bus.
(b) A car.
(c) A horse.
(d) A trolley.

7. Horse and stage coach accidents were fairly common, about _________ times more common than auto accidents today.
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

9. Where should one steer this boat?
(a) Near the north shore of the lake.
(b) To the center of the lake.
(c) Across the lake.
(d) Close to shore.

10. Six airplane crashes have killed ___________ people in 1943, 1963, 1970, 1978, 1987 and 1981.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

11. The era of drowning began in the __________________, when many private boats and boat rentals occurred there.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1920s.

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

13. How does Whittlesey think Piper died?
(a) From falling into a hot spring and disintegrating.
(b) From a plant poison.
(c) From falling into the canyon.
(d) From being eaten by a bear.

14. More people in Yellowstone have died from _________________ than any other single cause of death save those not included in the book.
(a) Insect bites.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Dehydration.
(d) Heart attacks.

15. The horse and stagecoach era in Yellowstone lasted from 1872 to _____________.
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. Today Yellowstone sees between zero and five ________ deaths a year.

2. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.

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

4. Charles Kenck and Richard Dietrch were killed by the ________________ in 1877 though this was due to an invasion into their territory.

5. Perhaps the last stagecoach wreck occurred on July 24th, _____________.

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