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

2. What began to happen at Mann Gulch forty years later?
(a) Small animals had begun to return to the hillside.
(b) Small trees had begun to grow along the gulches on the hillside.
(c) Small brush fires had begun to erupt along the ridge.
(d) Small bushes had replaced scarred land along the hillside.

3. What did Maclean say was evidence of the strength of the fire when it hit the Smokejumpers on the ridge?
(a) It singed the hair on their heads.
(b) It melted the soles of their shoes.
(c) It blew the watches from their wrists.
(d) It blew the clothes off of their bodies.

4. What did Maclean believe the atomic mushroom to be a symbol of in the 20th century?
(a) A symbol of the future of science.
(b) A symbol of everything wrong with governmental agencies such as the Forest Service.
(c) A symbol of American supremacy in firefighting.
(d) A symbol of our inner fear of the explosive power of the universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Board of Review?

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

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

5. What are the natural components of a blowup?

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