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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a challenge of balancing what?
(a) Adequate warning and personal responsibility.
(b) Taming the wild and allowing it to be free.
(c) Allowing visitors to learn about nature and protecting the wilderness.
(d) Watching the animals and allowing them to act naturally.

2. How did Mrs. H.P. Knapp die?
(a) She was gored by a bison.
(b) She was burned to death by her gas stove.
(c) She fell off of a cliff.
(d) She was eaten by a bear.

3. A park bus killed a woman on July 15th, ___________.
(a) 1932.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1921.

4. What else is important regarding the boat?
(a) It should be in good shape and not overloaded.
(b) It should be new.
(c) It should be made of wood.
(d) It should be large and heavy.

5. The most drownings have occurred in __________________ Lake and arguably no body of water in the Park (and probably in the whole United States) is more potentially dangerous.
(a) Lower.
(b) Lamar.
(c) Yellowstone.
(d) Heart.

6. Nature demands that we do what?
(a) Fight back.
(b) Pay attention.
(c) Hide.
(d) Run away.

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

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

9. It is _____________ that forest fires take lives in Yellowstone.
(a) Frequent.
(b) Constant.
(c) Rare.
(d) Not uncommon.

10. A self-defense shooting happened in 1886 when stockmen Alex Ferguson and Charles Carpenter had just had a fight about what?
(a) Carpenter stealing cattle from Ferguson.
(b) Ferguson stealing cattle from Carpenter.
(c) Carpenter's cattle being on Ferguson's land.
(d) Ferguson's cattle being on Carpenter's land.

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

12. After serving five years President ________________ pardoned Weber after the German consul pulled for him.
(a) Benjamin Harrison.
(b) Chester Arthur.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) James Garfield.

13. Whittlesey argues that Yellowstone must not be what?
(a) Allowed to continue.
(b) Viewed by the general public.
(c) Left wild.
(d) Sanitized.

14. ____________ murders have occurred inside Yellowstone and ten in nearby towns.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

15. Whittlesey reminds the reader that the wilderness is what?
(a) Not your friend.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Fairly safe.
(d) Your friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Joseph Lippman was killed in ___________ when their stagecoach struck a rock on the road and flipped over.

2. _________________ people have committed suicide in Yellowstone and four outside of the park.

3. There was a special case of a man and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Dunn, who did what on July 13th, 1924?

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

5. On August 20th, 1883, George Weber started arguing with John Zutavern; they were both employed by the park improvement company and were fighting over what?

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