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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what organization did the Smokejumpers work?
(a) The National Guard.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Army.
(d) The Forest Service.

3. What question did the author ask Mrs. Brown before leaving the lodge?
(a) He asked if she could feed him something.
(b) He asked if she had started the fire.
(c) He asked how to get back to the main road.
(d) He asked if he could repay her for her kindness.

4. What is a "fire whirl?"
(a) A small, easily extinguished fire.
(b) A tornado-like fire that starts other fires by its motion.
(c) A space in a fire where there is room to breathe.
(d) A fire in a wind pattern that puts itself out.

5. What well-known magazine had a lead article entitled "Smokejumpers Suffer Ordeal by Fire?"
(a) Time.
(b) Look.
(c) Life.
(d) National Geographic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Fish Creek fire, where was the author standing when the fire jumped?

2. What quality of Dodge's led to his escape from death by the fire?

3. What did Sallee and Rumsey say as they went up the last hillside?

4. To what did Maclean compare the fire lower on the hillside as it met the escape fire set by Dodge?

5. How did Dodge die five years after the fire?

(see the answer key)

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