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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Elmer Bloom?
(a) The movie producer.
(b) The movie director.
(c) The announcer.
(d) The Forest Service photographer.

2. What was the severely burned deer doing as the author watched?
(a) Running back and forth across a road.
(b) Looking at the fire.
(c) Eating leaves.
(d) Drinking water.

3. Who did Rumsey and Sallee find ahead of them while they were running from the fire?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Harrison.
(c) Jansson.
(d) Hellman.

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

5. Where did Maclean place the ashes of his wife Jessie when she died?
(a) On Mount Helena.
(b) On Mount Jessie.
(c) On the western bank of the Missouri.
(d) At Seely Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many feet does a Smokejumper fall before his parachute opens?

2. What does Maclean consider a natural reaction near the end of a fire story?

3. Who made the crosses that mark the spots the Smokejumpers fell, defeated by the fire?

4. How did Maclean explain the change in the world after compassionately studying the fire at Mann Gulch?

5. How did Rumsey verify that the tin can of potatoes the men found near Hellman's marker was the same one left there after the fire?

(see the answer key)

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