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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Sylvia and Hellman not suffering from their burns?
(a) Their injuries were covered with novacaine.
(b) They were in a state of shock.
(c) They were heavily sedated.
(d) Their nerve endings were destroyed.

2. Why did Laird Robinson stop smokejumping?
(a) He injured himself landing on a fire.
(b) He injured himself in a car accident.
(c) He injured himself while working in Missoula.
(d) He injured himself while hiking.

3. What feeling did the Smokejumpers share with all other youth their age?
(a) The feeling that they could be successful firefighters.
(b) The feeling that they were immortal.
(c) The feeling that their lives would be long.
(d) The feeling that education was important.

4. What were the two nonhuman elements Maclean said were left after sight and fear were gone?
(a) Smoke and flames.
(b) Heat and toxic gases.
(c) Carbon monoxide and flames.
(d) Fire and carbon dioxide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the natural components of a blowup?

2. Where did Bob Moore and Maclean discover they had both worked in their youths?

3. What common portrayal of death did Maclean believe did not occur for the Smokejumpers?

4. What well-known magazine had a lead article entitled "Smokejumpers Suffer Ordeal by Fire?"

5. What did the author hear a voice say to him as he ran to avoid being killed in the Fish Creek fire?

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