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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. Often stagecoaches would wreck due to what?

2. ____________ murders have occurred inside Yellowstone and ten in nearby towns.

3. ____________ fur trappers were killed in 1839 and two park visitors in 1877.

4. 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.

5. What must everyone in the boat have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do many visitors enter a park? What can be done to protect these people? How does this affect the park? What does the author have to say about these safety measures?

2. Describe the one fight that led to a death. Are you surprised by this death? Why or why not?

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

4. What was the 'Grand Tour?' How did this affect the safety of those in the park?

5. Where did the Native Americans in Yellowstone live?

6. What happened to Charles Kenck and Richard Dietrch? Why did this happen?

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

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

9. What were the causes of the earliest Yellowstone deaths? Why is little known about these deaths?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Deaths have been caused by lightning strikes, fires, and earthquakes.

Part 1) Describe the deaths caused by lightning strikes, fires, and earthquakes. Who was at fault in each of these deaths? Could these deaths have been prevented? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 2) Are these dangers as important as other dangers in Yellowstone? Why or why not? How are these deaths different from others in this book?

Part 3) What can be done to help prevent injury and death from lightning strikes, fires, and earthquakes? How can the park learn from other areas of the country where lightning strikes, fires, and earthquakes are more prevalent?

Essay Topic 2

There have been strong reactions to the deaths of those killed in Yellowstone.

Part 1) Describe a death at Yellowstone. What were the reactions to this death? Are you surprised by these reactions? Why or why not? Is this an appropriate way to handle this death? Why or why not?

Part 2) How have the deaths at Yellowstone affected the park itself? How have they also affected those who work at and visit the park? How has the park changed over time due to these deaths? Are these good changes? Why or why not? Would the author see these as good changes? Why or why not?

Part 3) How have deaths elsewhere in the U.S. affected the places in which those deaths occurred? In general, is enough done to protect others from such deaths? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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