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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what novel is an escape fire used by an old trapper to save his party?
(a) The Prairie.
(b) American Fur Trade of the Far West.
(c) The Sound and the Fury.
(d) My Antonia.

2. How did Dodge die five years after the fire?
(a) Hodgkin's disease.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Parkinson's.
(d) Heart attack.

3. When was the first parachute jump made on a forest fire?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1944.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Forest Service begin using planes to spot fires?

2. When did Dodge return to Missoula?

3. How many acres of land burned in the Mann Gulch fire?

4. Who were the only permanent residents of the town near the author's cabin?

5. Who was destroying the food supply for the abundant animal population in the area?

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