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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must everyone in the boat have?
(a) A life jacket.
(b) Life guard training.
(c) First aid certification.
(d) Excellent swimming skills.

2. Six people have drowned in fairly unusual places, such as ________________ Lake and Hellroaring Creek.
(a) Jenny.
(b) Gallatin.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Bradley.

3. If you want to boat on Yellowstone Lake, what type of boat should you use?
(a) A small, short boat.
(b) A large boat.
(c) A motor boat.
(d) A sailboat.

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

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

6. A ________________ soldier drowned due to falling in the water and another died from falling due to intoxication.
(a) Deserting.
(b) New.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Dying.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Regarding this balance, which way does the author believe our culture errs?
(a) Sometimes towards the latter and sometimes the former.
(b) Too far towards the latter and away from the former.
(c) Too far towards the former and away from the latter.
(d) In neither direction.

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

14. ________________ of horses once occupied the park during the 'Grand Tour' which often occurred in stagecoaches that would last for five to ten days.
(a) Thousands.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Dozens.

15. Mrs. Louis Helbut died in _______________ from fainting.
(a) 1889.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1898.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. More people in Yellowstone have died from _________________ than any other single cause of death save those not included in the book.

3. 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.

4. In 1937, a horrible fire killed fifteen __________________ and injured thirty-nine others.

5. The author believes people simply do what, regarding their time in the park?

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