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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the plan not work out?
(a) Each company had a dramatic increase in calls.
(b) Ladder Co. 31 had a dramatic increase in calls.
(c) There was confusion about which company should respond to which fires.
(d) Engine Co. 82 had a dramatic increase in calls.

2. Approximately how many firefighters died each year in New York at the time the book was written?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

3. What did the sound of four 5 bells announce at the fire station?
(a) Injuries to a firefighter.
(b) A car accident.
(c) A multiple-alarm fire.
(d) The death of a firefighter in the line of duty.

4. How much did the air pack weigh that Fireman Bill Kelsey put on his back while responding to the Southern Boulevard fire call in Chapter 8?
(a) Forty pounds.
(b) Thirty pounds.
(c) Twenty pounds.
(d) Twenty-five pounds.

5. Who was the second injured person found by firefighters at the Home and Simpson streets intersection, and how was he injured?
(a) The driver; he sustained the injuries in the accident.
(b) A bystander mistaken for the driver and beaten.
(c) The driver; he had been beaten by the angry crowd.
(d) The boy's friend, who was also hit.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Smith, how should kids who pull malicious false alarms be treated?

2. Which firefighter died shortly before the time Chapter 2 takes place?

3. What ethnic group was now predominate in the formerly Irish neighborhood in which Smith grew up?

4. According to the film Smith saw at a recent science fair, how much bigger than the earth is the sun?

5. How would firefighters have designed a building differently to make firefighting easier, according to Smith?

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