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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the fire look like when it jumped the trail at Fish Creek?
(a) A small Indian campfire.
(b) A wall of fire.
(c) A two alarm blaze.
(d) A stove fire.

2. What did the first Smokejumpers call the fires into which they jumped?
(a) Sneak peeks.
(b) Easy money.
(c) No big deal.
(d) Ten o'clock fires.

3. When did Dodge return to Missoula?
(a) When Jansson ordered him to.
(b) When he collapsed from exhaustion.
(c) When his crew was all accounted for.
(d) When his wife came to pick him up.

4. What is the cause of 75% of forest fires?
(a) Spontaneous combustion.
(b) Campfires.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Smoldering cigarettes.

5. Who was the chief forester in Washington D.C. at the time of the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) Lyle F. Watts.
(b) Wag Dodge.
(c) Leon F. Wogan.
(d) Simon G. Warren.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was C.A. Gustafson?

2. When did the author work for the Forest Service?

3. When did the investigative committee that the chief forester assembled arrive in Mann Gulch?

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

5. Where did Maclean first go in the hopes of finding Robert Sallee?

(see the answer key)

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