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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Cried.
(b) Put out the fire on his shoelaces.
(c) Took in huge gulps of air.
(d) Sat down to rest.

2. Where did the firefighters go as the fire spread toward them in Fish Creek?
(a) They backed up to the sidehill trail.
(b) They backed up to the water's edge.
(c) They backed up to the fire station.
(d) They backed up to the foot of the mountain.

3. Where had the author's boots come from?
(a) Farm and Fleet.
(b) Sears and Roebucks.
(c) The general store in town.
(d) The army surplus store.

4. What did Mike Mansfield accomplish for the families of the fallen Smokejumpers?
(a) He tried to delay the Mann Gulch Report.
(b) He added funds to the Forest Service.
(c) He raised the burial allowance from $200 to $400 dollars.
(d) He appointed a special advisor to assess the situation.

5. How did Dodge die five years after the fire?
(a) Hodgkin's disease.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Parkinson's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Forest Service learn from the fires in 1910?

2. Where did the author go after climbing over the ridge away from the Fish Creek fire?

3. How many Smokejumpers were in the plane ready to parachute into Mann Gulch?

4. Where did the Fish Creek fire actually burn?

5. How did the author answer the question that the voice in the fire had asked?

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