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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Stanley and Jick notice about the slope opposite the fire?
(a) It is very hot.
(b) It is too steep to climb.
(c) It is rocky, lacking anything that might burn.
(d) It has already burned.

2. How does Paul show his trust in Mac and the new firefighting strategy?
(a) He offers to delay reporting their status until the last moment in the morning.
(b) He offers to lie in his report.
(c) He offers to delay reporting their status until the last moment in the evening.
(d) He offers to "forget" to report.

3. At the end of Part 3, who makes a grave announcement?
(a) Ray's father.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Mac.
(d) Tollie.

4. What firefighting strategy does Stanley offer to Mac, following his observations about the opposite slope?
(a) Two firelines should be established.
(b) Using a fireline is the wrong strategy.
(c) The fireline should be moved to the top of the opposing slope.
(d) The fireline should be established in the valley.

5. What is Wisdom's real name?
(a) Walter.
(b) Dominic.
(c) Cyrus.
(d) Stanley.

6. When Jick visits Alec's bunkhouse, how does Jick determine which bunk is his brother's?
(a) The perfectly made bed.
(b) A picture of Leona.
(c) The unmade bed.
(d) A picture of the McCaskill family.

7. What is Alec's response, when Jick asks him to help their father fight the forest fire?
(a) He explains he is about to leave town.
(b) He ask his boss for permission, but is denied.
(c) He joins the firefighters.
(d) He refuses.

8. What is Perry's winter job?
(a) Working in the lumber yard.
(b) Mending harnesses.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Bricklayer.

9. How does Jick compare his job to that of the firefighters?
(a) Their days stretch on as if weeks.
(b) As the fire has hunger for the forest, the firefighters have an epidemic of appetite.
(c) They are all physically exhausted.
(d) While Jick uses fire to cook food, the firefighters use food as fuel to fight fire.

10. What position does Jick take in the firefighting effort?
(a) Water carrier.
(b) Fire lookout.
(c) Assistant to Mac.
(d) Assistant to Stanley.

11. When Jick visits Alec at his ranch, how do the ranch hands decide which two should go into town with the foreman?
(a) Picking numbers, 1 through 100.
(b) Drawing straws.
(c) A jig competition.
(d) A game of cards.

12. After leaving Alec and the ranch, Jick shares what thought with Ray?
(a) He thinks Alec should leave town.
(b) He has a crush on Leona.
(c) He doesn't think Alec and Leona will get married.
(d) He thinks Alec might be ill.

13. Who goes into town to fetch the extra lunches?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Jick.
(c) Lisabeth.
(d) Velma.

14. The morning after Mac joined the firefighters, what request does he send through his dispatcher?
(a) Forty volunteer firefighters, horses, extra lunches, and a cook.
(b) Fifty volunteer firefighters, extra lunches, and a cook.
(c) Two helecopters, extra lunches, and thirty volunteer firefighters.
(d) Fifty volunteer firefighters, extra lunches, and a helecopter.

15. The night of Jick's first day at camp, in how many places does Mack say the fire has jumped their fireline?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dispatcher at the ranger station?

2. During haying season, who employs Jick?

3. After a lightning storm on August 25, how many fires are burning in Mac's English Creek district?

4. At the end of Part 3, what grave announcement is made?

5. Who was fired from the Forest Service after Phantom Woman burned?

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