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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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.
(a) Skiing.
(b) Boating.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Diving.

3. The Blackfeet to the _____________ and the Crows to the northeast.
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) West.

4. A ___________ fire killed Civilian Conservation Corps worker James Hester who lost his life fighting the fire.
(a) 1920.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1910.

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

6. Four have drowned in Yellowstone's __________________ Lake.
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Black Hawk.
(c) Shoshone.
(d) Lenape.

7. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 110.
(d) 50.

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

9. As of 1995, ___________________ people have died from falls in Yellowstone, four from man-made structures, three from mounts and the rest into canyons.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Fifteen.

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

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

12. 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) Heart.
(b) Lamar.
(c) Yellowstone.
(d) Lower.

13. _______________ death from a fight is known about.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Only one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ferguson shot Carpenter, killing him, did a jury find him guilty?

2. The automobile was allowed into Yellowstone in August, ___________ and the park has been motorized since the summer of 1917.

3. 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?

4. A park bus driver was killed on August 25th, ____________.

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

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