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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do firefighters get enough oxygen when a building is thick with smoke?
(a) By crawling on their stomachs to reach the oxygen at floor level.
(b) By using oxygen tanks.
(c) By first clearing out some of the smoke.
(d) By breaking out windows to get oxygen in.

2. Approximately what percentage of the fire department's calls were for actual fires?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-quarter.
(c) One-half.
(d) Three-quarters.

3. Which captain entered the Kelly Street apartment first?
(a) Capt. Frimes.
(b) Capt. O'Brien.
(c) Capt. Solwen.
(d) Capt. Smith.

4. Who was responsible for the fire at the Kelly Street apartments?
(a) The landlord.
(b) Someone with a grudge against a resident.
(c) A disgruntled employee.
(d) One of the renters.

5. Approximately how many calls did Engine Co. 82 respond to the year before the book was written?
(a) Over 10,500.
(b) Under 8,000.
(c) Over 10,000.
(d) Over 9,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose job is it to investigate suspicious fires?

2. What injury did the young Hispanic boy suffer during the dinner time call to Home and Simpson streets?

3. Before discovering the culprit, how did Smith describe the fatal fire on Kelly Street?

4. What was the Kelly Street apartment landlord charged with after the fire?

5. Why did the firefighters have a difficult time getting into one of the Kelly Street apartments?

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