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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first suicide was committed by _______________, 27, who died January 27th, 1884 from overdosing on morphine.
(a) Mrs. Elaine McKinley.
(b) Mrs. Eleanor Monroe.
(c) Mrs. Emilia Madison.
(d) Mrs. Emily Moore.

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

3. Weber accused Zutavern of what?
(a) Killing.
(b) Cheating.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Lying.

4. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.
(a) Wagon wrecks.
(b) Skiing.
(c) Iceskating.
(d) Car wrecks.

5. Many people enter the wild every day how?
(a) In fear.
(b) With a great deal of food.
(c) Unprepared.
(d) Well-prepared.

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

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

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

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

10. How deep is this dangerous lake in some places?
(a) 450 feet deep.
(b) 350 feet deep.
(c) 45 feet deep.
(d) 750 feet deep.

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

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

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

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

15. Most suicides have been by whom?
(a) Women.
(b) Park visitors.
(c) Teenagers.
(d) Park employees.

Short Answer Questions

1. If you want to boat on Yellowstone Lake, what type of boat should you use?

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

3. There is a challenge of balancing what?

4. National parks are valuable but what?

5. Horse and stage coach accidents were fairly common, about _________ times more common than auto accidents today.

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