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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert Walker, age 6, died from what?

2. Whittlesey understands that humans want to do what regarding large animals?

3. When was Walker's body found?

4. How does the author suggest that people get more in touch with nature?

5. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Harry Walker and Crow's story affect life for the bears at Yellowstone? Is this good or bad?

2. Why did many of the deaths described in this book take place?

3. What does the author suggest people do to be more in touch with nature?

4. Why is death due to falling trees a real threat at Yellowstone?

5. How did Andy Hecht's death affect the park? Does the author see this change as good or bad? Why?

6. How does the author treat the deaths in this book? Why does he treat them in this way?

7. Describe the worst hot spring accident. Why might this be the worst?

8. What is said about lightning strikes? Why must visitors be careful during thunderstorms?

9. How many known plants exist on Earth? How man of these have cause death or serious illness in the Western hemisphere? Why is this information important?

10. When people feed bears, who is at fault? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Deaths have taken place due to automobile and plane crashes.

Part 1) Describe the advent of the automobile in Yellowstone. How does this reflect changes throughout the U.S.? How did the automobile change Yellowstone? How does the author feel about this? Why does he feel this way?

Part 2) How dangerous is the automobile? How does this compare to horse-related fatalities? Are you surprised about which is more dangerous? Why or why not? How does the number of automobile fatalities compare to the number of plane crash fatalities?

Part 3) Who is often at fault in automobile accident fatalities? Who is at fault in plane crash fatalities? What can be done to prevent both of these types of accidents? How does this impact Yellowstone? How do these preventative measures compare to those used throughout the U.S.? Are these measures adequate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Humans have a desire to be close to nature.

Part 1) Describe this desire, and support it with information from this book. Why do humans desire to be close to nature? How does this affect their behavior at places like Yellowstone?

Part 2) Why might humans feel that wild animals in a park would be tame? How do they come to assume this? How does Yellowstone try to warn visitors that this assumption is incorrect? Is this enough? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the author suggest humans become closer to nature? What does this mean that visitors must understand? How might this belief affect Yellowstone and other parks like it?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the earliest deaths in Yellowstone come from battles with Native Americans.

Part 1) Describe Yellowstone's early Native American history. What tribes lived in Yellowstone? How might they ended up in Yellowstone? Why might they have left? What battles took place in Yellowstone? Why did these battles take place?

Part 2) How are these battles important to the author and to the purpose of this book? How do these battles and subsequent deaths differ from most of the other deaths mentioned in this book?

Part 3) What is the author's opinion of death during war? Why might he feel this way? How do his feelings about death during battle compare to his feelings about other fatalities? Why?

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