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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the "high incidence hours" that Tactical Control Unit 712 became responsible for?
(a) Noon and 10 p.m.
(b) 6 p.m. and 4 a.m.
(c) 6 a.m. and 4 p.m.
(d) 3 p.m. and 1 a.m.

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

3. What did the firefighters find on Freeman Street during one of the calls in Chapter 3?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A burning store.
(c) A man injured in a fight.
(d) A car accident.

4. How did Smith's wife compare his job to that of a soldier's in Vietnam?
(a) There was more job security as a soldier.
(b) In Vietnam, soldiers only had to serve for a year.
(c) It was safer in Vietnam.
(d) Soldiers were better-paid.

5. How does Smith envision false alarms occurring in richer neighborhoods?
(a) Residents panic at the slightest sign of trouble and pull the alarms.
(b) Residents accidently hit the alarms.
(c) Visitors from the South Bronx pull the alarms.
(d) Europeans mistake alarm boxes for mail boxes.

6. To which kind of call was the firefighter responding when he was killed, prior to the events in Chapter 2?
(a) A burning apartment building.
(b) A stabbing.
(c) An auto accident.
(d) A malicious false alarm.

7. Who was the second injured person found by firefighters at the Home and Simpson streets intersection, and how was he injured?
(a) The driver; he sustained the injuries in the accident.
(b) The driver; he had been beaten by the angry crowd.
(c) The boy's friend, who was also hit.
(d) A bystander mistaken for the driver and beaten.

8. What did the kids across the street from the Union Avenue fire do when the firefighters arrived?
(a) They chanted and yelled insults.
(b) They cheered.
(c) They sang.
(d) They asked the firefighters to give them a ride.

9. What did the landlord of the Kelly Street apartments do once the youths had spread the gasoline around?
(a) He threw a match and locked the men in.
(b) He was not at the scene.
(c) He had the young men light the gasoline.
(d) He tried to get the young men out.

10. What did Smith consider the most admirable characteristic of firefighters?
(a) Their reliability.
(b) Their committment to community.
(c) Their bravery.
(d) Their strength.

11. What board game were the firemen playing in Chapter 3?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Monopoly.
(c) Risk.
(d) Backgammon.

12. How did Smith feel when first approached about writing a memoir of firefighting?
(a) Challenged by the act of writing the way climbers are challenged by mountains.
(b) Concerned that he did not know enough about firefighting.
(c) Concerned that he would be incapable of writing.
(d) Convinced that people would never understand firefighters.

13. What field did Smith's wife want him to go into instead of firefighting?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Sanitation.

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

15. How does Smith describe his political leanings?
(a) Libertarian.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Smith move outside the city after growing up there?

2. How did the Charlotte Street fire become easier to battle?

3. Which captain entered the Kelly Street apartment first?

4. What did the three men sitting on Charlotte Street do when they saw the kid pull the false alarm in Chapter 3?

5. What did Smith keep in his locker at the fire station?

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