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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Smith remember details for the book while working full-time?
(a) By dictating into a tape recorder.
(b) Byinterviewing fellow firefighters,
(c) By writing daily.
(d) By simply relying on his memory.

2. In which borough did Smith serve?
(a) Bedford-Stuyvesant.
(b) Lower East Side.
(c) South Bronx.
(d) Harlem.

3. What did the firefighters discover when they arrived at the Kelly Street fire in Chapter 1?
(a) A young man fleeing the scene.
(b) A young man, on fire, running out of the building.
(c) A young woman screaming that her child is in the building.
(d) A young man calling from an open window.

4. Before discovering the culprit, how did Smith describe the fatal fire on Kelly Street?
(a) A tough break.
(b) A case of just desserts.
(c) A simple tragedy.
(d) A case of ironic justice.

5. What does Smith say computers can be used for in the firefighting field?
(a) Computers can project how many fires will occur in a given day.
(b) Computers can be used to reduce response times.
(c) Computers can help fire trucks find fires faster.
(d) Computers can help firefighters determine the best way to fight a fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the young man seen running from the Kelly Street apartment?

3. Whose job is it to investigate suspicious fires?

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

5. Why does Smith call firefighters the most "ubiquitous" civil servants?

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