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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would have happened had the author stepped across the fire immediately when it jumped the trail?
(a) It would have reached the water and extinguished itself.
(b) It would have been caught between the lake and the mountain.
(c) It would have reached beds of fallen needles and smoldered.
(d) It would have been blown by opposite winds.

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

4. Where did the author stand to fight the Fish Creek fire?
(a) To the right side of it.
(b) Behind it.
(c) In front of it.
(d) To the left side of it.

5. What did the author hear a voice say to him as he ran to avoid being killed in the Fish Creek fire?
(a) "Can you see your way out?"
(b) "How're you doing, sonny?"
(c) "I have to go with you."
(d) "Are you lost, too?"

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author first hear a voice in the fire during the Fish Creek fire?

2. Who did the author first think the voice he heard in the fire belonged to?

3. Where did the burned and disabled deer die?

4. Where was the author when he saw smoke coming out of black holes in the snow?

5. What was the severely burned deer doing as the author watched?

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