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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was destroying the food supply for the abundant animal population in the area?
(a) The farmers.
(b) The fox population.
(c) The locusts.
(d) The sheep herders.

2. What is a Pulaski?
(a) Half-ax and half-hoe.
(b) Half-shovel and half-ax.
(c) Half-ax and half-spade.
(d) Half-hoe and half-shovel.

3. What did Jansson send up to the survivors of the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) Food, blankets, and water.
(b) A doctor, food, and assistance.
(c) A doctor, litter, blankets, and blood plasma.
(d) A doctor and more firefighters.

4. What did the author feel while he was running away from the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Fear.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Confusion.

5. When was the U.S. Forest Service established?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1915.

6. Where did the burned and disabled deer die?
(a) In the creek.
(b) On the road.
(c) At the base of the mountain.
(d) On a burning log.

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

8. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Put out the fire on his shoelaces.
(b) Took in huge gulps of air.
(c) Sat down to rest.
(d) Cried.

9. How many acres of land burned in the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) 2,500 acres.
(b) 4,500 acres.
(c) 7,500 acres.
(d) 5,000 acres.

10. How old was the author when he joined the Forest Service?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Seventeen.

11. In the Fish Creek fire, where was the author standing when the fire jumped?
(a) Near the fire truck.
(b) Behind the fire chief near the water.
(c) On the other side of the lake.
(d) At the exact place of the jump.

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

13. When did the author work for the Forest Service?
(a) During World War II.
(b) During college.
(c) During the Korean War.
(d) During World War I.

14. Who were the three men who ran toward the ridge together to escape the fire?
(a) Rumsey, Sallee, and Diettert.
(b) Rumsey, Sallee and Dodge.
(c) Rumsey, Sallee, and Harrison.
(d) Rumsey, Hellman, and Harrison.

15. What did the author say he saw while fighting the Fish Creek fire?
(a) A house on fire.
(b) Farmers moving their cows.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Lightening strike a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author first hear a voice in the fire during the Fish Creek fire?

2. Who was the spotter on the C-47 that dropped Smokejumpers into Mann Gulch?

3. Who did the author believe started the forest fire at Fish Creek?

4. For what did the fire fighters hope to use Fish Creek?

5. Where was the author's cabin located?

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