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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two companies were prohibited from responding to the same fire under the new plan?
(a) 82 and 90.
(b) 85 and 87.
(c) 82 and 85.
(d) 82 and 92.

2. What did Smith keep in his locker at the fire station?
(a) A battered book of Yeats' poems.
(b) The collected works of James Joyce.
(c) A battered book of Irish prose.
(d) A battered book of Irish poetry.

3. Why does Smith call firefighters the most "ubiquitous" civil servants?
(a) They respond to calls involving each and every natural and man-made disaster.
(b) They are the most numerous civil servants.
(c) They are the best funded of all civil service departments.
(d) They are the civil servants who most frequently interact with individuals.

4. Why did the men take turns manning the hose while battling the apartment building fire in Chapter 5?
(a) Because they were sleepy.
(b) Because they were physically tired.
(c) Because some of them were in training.
(d) To get a break from the cold weather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was responsible for the most malicious false alarms?

2. How many injured people were found in the Kelly Street apartment?

3. What do the firemen call the "game" they play when they ask one another if they may relieve another fireman during a fire?

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

5. Which magazine asked Smith to write about firefighters?

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