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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the fire starters assume the Fish Creek fire would travel?
(a) Up the tributary in a box canyon with cliffs.
(b) Into town.
(c) To the edge of the lake.
(d) Into the deepest part of the forest.

2. What did the author say he saw while fighting the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Farmers moving their cows.
(b) A house on fire.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Lightening strike a tree.

3. Why were Sylvia and Hellman not suffering from their burns?
(a) They were in a state of shock.
(b) They were heavily sedated.
(c) Their injuries were covered with novacaine.
(d) Their nerve endings were destroyed.

4. How did the additional firefighters needed in Mann Gulch get there?
(a) By hiking up the side of the gulch.
(b) By plane and parachute.
(c) By boat on the Missouri River.
(d) By jeep to within a mile of the fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the author's boots come from?

2. What did the author feel while he was running away from the Fish Creek fire?

3. What did Maclean and the others agree was the second key point on the hillside they needed to locate?

4. What did the first Smokejumpers call the fires into which they jumped?

5. When did the author first notice the Mann Gulch fire?

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