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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 first Smokejumpers call the fires into which they jumped?
(a) Sneak peeks.
(b) Easy money.
(c) Ten o'clock fires.
(d) No big deal.

2. What was the severely burned deer doing as the author watched?
(a) Looking at the fire.
(b) Eating leaves.
(c) Running back and forth across a road.
(d) Drinking water.

3. How did the author answer the question that the voice in the fire had asked?
(a) "Help me please."
(b) "I keep slipping back."
(c) "I am lost, too."
(d) "I am okay, really."

4. When did Wag Dodge die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1975.

5. What happens when a fire up a hillside closes in on someone?
(a) It is easier to breathe and find a way out.
(b) Everything feels only like exhaustion.
(c) It generates adrenalin which helps to keep running.
(d) Everything begins to feel only like thirst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Board of Review?

2. Where did Maclean finally find Robert Sallee?

3. What did the author say he saw while fighting the Fish Creek fire?

4. Why did Laird Robinson stop smokejumping?

5. What did the Smokejumpers of Mann Gulch wear to protect their heads on the jump?

(see the answer key)

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