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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the three young men doing in the empty Kelly Street apartment building?
(a) They were homeless and were squatting there.
(b) They were hired by the landlord to torch it.
(c) They were selling drugs in the empty apartments.
(d) They were fixing the apartments up for future rental.

2. What was the average daily number of false alarms in New York City during the time period covered by the book?
(a) 147.
(b) 250.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

3. What kind of tool did the firefighters use to break down the door during the Kelly Street fire?
(a) Halligan tool.
(b) Donegan tool.
(c) Sullivan tool.
(d) Mulligan tool.

4. In Smith's view, what needed to happen before people stopped assaulting firefighters?
(a) They need to become educated and rise out of poverty.
(b) They need to do community service projects.
(c) They need to lose custody of their children.
(d) They need to be arrested and jailed.

5. What happened to Capt. Frimes at the Kelly Street fire?
(a) He was burned by the fire.
(b) Nothing happened to him.
(c) He was trapped by debris in the apartment.
(d) He was overcome with smoke and had to be pulled out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Smith want to re-read the Yeats poem about wise men becoming tense with violence before they can accomplish fate?

2. How did Smith feel when first approached about writing a memoir of firefighting?

3. How was a firefighter injured while rescuing a child from a fire on Prospect Avenue?

4. To which kind of call was the firefighter responding when he was killed, prior to the events in Chapter 2?

5. Whose job is it to investigate suspicious fires?

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