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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many men fought the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) 450.
(b) 900.
(c) 750.
(d) 300.

3. What question does a Smokejumper foreman ask while fighting a fire?
(a) "Is every man accounted for?"
(b) "Where is a good escape route?"
(c) "Where are the tools?"
(d) "Where is the biggest fire?"

4. Where was the author when he saw smoke coming out of black holes in the snow?
(a) While staying in Lolo Hot Springs.
(b) While returning home from the Fish Creek fire.
(c) While ice fishing on the lake.
(d) While hunting in Fish Creek.

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

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

7. Who did the author first think the voice he heard in the fire belonged to?
(a) His imagination.
(b) A farmer trapped in the fire.
(c) A member of the pickup crew.
(d) His partner.

8. Who was Mrs. Brown?
(a) The telephone operator.
(b) The postmistress.
(c) The owner of the lodge.
(d) The wife of the owner of the lodge.

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

10. Where did the author go after climbing over the ridge away from the Fish Creek fire?
(a) The fishing lodge owned by his father's cousin.
(b) The hunting lodge where he and his father had hunted together.
(c) The hunting lodge used by the locals in the winter.
(d) The fishing lodge he had read about in a brochure.

11. What would have happened had the author stepped across the fire immediately when it jumped the trail?
(a) It would have been blown by opposite winds.
(b) It would have reached the water and extinguished itself.
(c) It would have reached beds of fallen needles and smoldered.
(d) It would have been caught between the lake and the mountain.

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

13. Who was the head of the Helena National Forest Canyon Ferry District?
(a) Bill Harrison.
(b) Charles Merriweather.
(c) Wag Dodge.
(d) Robert Jansson.

14. Where did both Sylvia and Hellman die?
(a) In the speedboat back to the station.
(b) In a hospital in Helena.
(c) In a hospital in Butte.
(d) On the way to Missoula.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Brown say to the author when she opened the door?

2. How old was the author when he joined the Forest Service?

3. Where was the author when he was startled to see a terribly burned deer?

4. How many Smokejumpers died fighting the Mann Gulch fire?

5. Where was the author's cabin located?

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