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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. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.

2. What must everyone in the boat have?

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

4. Often stagecoaches would wreck due to what?

5. During a later physical fight, Zutavern starting beating Weber with a rock. How did Weber respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first suicide at Yellowstone. How is this story important?

2. Describe one of the shootings. What does this story reveal about those who were involved in this shooting and about guns?

3. How do most drownings occur?

4. What does the author have to say about the visitors' behavior regarding the park? What is his opinion about how the park is required to protect these visitors and how our nation as a whole treats its citizens? Do you agree? Why or why not?

5. How many have died in the Yellowstone River? What most likely led to these deaths?

6. What does Whittlesey think about the suicides that take place?

7. How often do forest fires take place? Why might this be?

8. How many people have died from carbon monoxide poisoning? How is this relevant to today?

9. When have plane crashes occurred? Which was the largest craft to crash? Why is this significant?

10. What lessons can be drawn from all the drowning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The bison or buffalo is heavily mythologized.

Part 1) Describe this myth and how it influences visitors at Yellowstone National Park. Why does this myth exist? Does it exist with other animals, as well as bison? Why or why not?

Part 2) Besides other animals, how else do visitors see the park's plants and landscape? Why do they see it in this way?

Part 3) What are your thoughts when you hear the word park? Do you think of danger? Why or why not? How might this name, park, be misleading to many who visit Yellowstone National Park?

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

Yellowstone National Park is a beautiful place yet it is full of fatal dangers.

Part 1) Describe Yellowstone National Park. How is it beautiful, yet dangerous? Why is this important to the author that the reader understand? How is the author's background and interests tied to the writing of this book?

Part 2) What is the purpose of this book? Does the author fulfill this purpose? If so, how? If not, why not? Can you relate to the purpose of this book? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might other places around the world be both beautiful and dangerous? Might the information in this book pertain to those places as well? Why or why not? What can be learned about the U.S. view of dangerous and beautiful places such as Yellowstone through this book? How might this compare to other views around the world?

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