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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Smith insist on working in the South Bronx?
(a) He lived close to the South Bronx.
(b) He believed the people there had a right to fire services.
(c) The pay was better.
(d) He had relatives there.

2. Why did Smith want to re-read the Yeats poem about wise men becoming tense with violence before they can accomplish fate?
(a) He was trying to understand the situation of people throwing rocks at firefighters.
(b) He was trying to take his mind off his work.
(c) He was preparing another letter to the editor.
(d) He was trying to understand what causes some men to willingly go into burning buildings.

3. Why did Smith's mother scold him before he left for work in Chapter 3?
(a) She believed the South Bronx was too dangerous to work in.
(b) She wanted him to move closer to his job.
(c) She argued with him about dinner.
(d) She did not want him to be a firefighter.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Smith's view, what needed to happen before people stopped assaulting firefighters?

2. What did the sound of four 5 bells announce at the fire station?

3. Why was Smith sent to the hospital after the Prospect Avenue fire?

4. Who was the second injured person found by firefighters at the Home and Simpson streets intersection, and how was he injured?

5. What kind of test was Fireman Benny Carroll studying for in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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