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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a gofer match?
(a) A cigarette lighter.
(b) A stick match pulled from a matchbox.
(c) A small torch made by lighting rolled paper.
(d) A paper match pulled from a matchbook.

2. How old was the author when he joined the Forest Service?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Sixteen.

3. Who were the three men who ran toward the ridge together to escape the fire?
(a) Rumsey, Sallee and Dodge.
(b) Rumsey, Sallee, and Harrison.
(c) Rumsey, Sallee, and Diettert.
(d) Rumsey, Hellman, and Harrison.

4. What year is generally seen as the beginning of modern scientific study of fire behavior?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1946.

5. Who was C.A. Gustafson?
(a) The Forest Service's Chief of Fire Control.
(b) The father of one of the dead Smokejumpers.
(c) The Speaker of the House.
(d) The pilot of the plane that dropped the Smokejumpers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Maclean begin his research on the Mann Gulch fire?

2. How did the author describe the sound of the fire getting very close?

3. Where was the Fish Creek fire when the author finally stopped running?

4. What did Maclean and the others decide was one key point on the hillside they needed to locate?

5. Why did Laird Robinson stop smokejumping?

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