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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Fireman Nick Riso injured while responding to a call?
(a) He was involved in a car accident.
(b) Someone threw a brick at him while he was responding to a call.
(c) He suffered smoke inhalation.
(d) He was injured in a fire.

2. How many injured people were found in the Kelly Street apartment?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

3. How were the men rescued during the factory fire?
(a) Another team arrived and put out the fires.
(b) The fire chief sent a ladder up.
(c) They were able to jump out the windows.
(d) One of the fires was put out and they retreated in that direction.

4. What did the ladder company do to get to the source of the smoke at the Charlotte Street fire?
(a) Broke down all the doors inside.
(b) Ventilated the roof.
(c) Broke the windows.
(d) Ripped holes in the wall.

5. What happened to Dennis as a child involving cockroaches?
(a) He had drunk from a bottle and almost swallowed a cockroach.
(b) He had discovered dozens of cockroaches in the refrigerator.
(c) He had woken up at night to find himself covered with cockroaches.
(d) He had accidentally eaten a cockroach hidden in food.

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

7. In Smith's view, what needed to happen before people stopped assaulting firefighters?
(a) They need to do community service projects.
(b) They need to be arrested and jailed.
(c) They need to become educated and rise out of poverty.
(d) They need to lose custody of their children.

8. 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 help firefighters determine the best way to fight a fire.
(c) Computers can be used to reduce response times.
(d) Computers can help fire trucks find fires faster.

9. Where on his body did Fireman Bill Kelsey get burned while battling the Charlotte Street blaze?
(a) On his back.
(b) On his chest.
(c) On his thigh.
(d) On his left. arm.

10. Why did the firefighters have a difficult time getting into one of the Kelly Street apartments?
(a) The door was extremely hot.
(b) The door was barricaded.
(c) The door lacked a doorknob.
(d) The door was locked.

11. 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 boy's friend, who was also hit.
(c) A bystander mistaken for the driver and beaten.
(d) The driver; he had been beaten by the angry crowd.

12. What happened to the fireman who was injured while responding to a call in Chapter 4?
(a) He was hospitalized for a week.
(b) He was admitted to the hospital overnight.
(c) He refused to be admitted to the hospital.
(d) He was treated at the scene.

13. Why did the plan not work out?
(a) Ladder Co. 31 had a dramatic increase in calls.
(b) Each company had a dramatic increase in calls.
(c) There was confusion about which company should respond to which fires.
(d) Engine Co. 82 had a dramatic increase in calls.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the firefighters save the life of the overdose victim on Hoe Avenue?

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

3. Which writer once suggested that the story finds the author?

4. Which Irish writer did Smith discuss in his letter to the editor?

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

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