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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sculpture at the University of Chicago commemorating the Atomic Age look like?
(a) Both a mushroom and a planet.
(b) Both a womb and a mushroom.
(c) Both a mushroom and a skull.
(d) Both a skull and a womb.

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

3. Where was the Fish Creek fire when the author finally stopped running?
(a) East of him.
(b) Both in front of and behind him.
(c) West of him.
(d) Directly behind him.

4. Who did Jansson, Sallee, and Roos find alive on the other side of the ridge from the other survivors?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Thol.
(c) Hellman.
(d) Daily.

5. What is a "fire whirl?"
(a) A small, easily extinguished fire.
(b) A fire in a wind pattern that puts itself out.
(c) A tornado-like fire that starts other fires by its motion.
(d) A space in a fire where there is room to breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did W.R. Moore assist Maclean in his research about Mann Gulch?

2. Why were Sylvia and Hellman not suffering from their burns?

3. What did Gisborne want to do on Mann Gulch?

4. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?

5. What were the emotions governing the Mann Gulch tragedy since it was first analyzed?

(see the answer key)

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