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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author first hear a voice in the fire during the Fish Creek fire?
(a) When he was halfway off the mountain.
(b) When he got to the lake.
(c) When he returned to the fire station.
(d) When he reached the top of the mountain.

2. How did the author answer the question that the voice in the fire had asked?
(a) "I am okay, really."
(b) "I am lost, too."
(c) "I keep slipping back."
(d) "Help me please."

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

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

5. What important piece of equipment was broken in the parachute landing at Mann Gulch?
(a) The first aid kit.
(b) The water barrel.
(c) The food rations.
(d) The radio.

6. Where did the fire starters assume the Fish Creek fire would travel?
(a) Up the tributary in a box canyon with cliffs.
(b) Into the deepest part of the forest.
(c) Into town.
(d) To the edge of the lake.

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

8. What was the temperature in Helena when the Smokejumpers landed in Mann Gulch?
(a) 97 degrees, the hottest day on record.
(b) 101 degrees, dangerous for firefighters.
(c) 86 degrees, perfect jumping weather.
(d) 77 degrees, the coolest day on record.

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

10. How many feet does a Smokejumper fall before his parachute opens?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Twenty.

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

12. Who told the author about the Mann Gulch fire when he came to town?
(a) The fire marshall.
(b) The postmistress.
(c) The shop keeper.
(d) A neighbor.

13. Who invented the "escape fire?"
(a) Henry Thol.
(b) Robert Jansson.
(c) Robert Harrison.
(d) Wag Dodge.

14. What did the Smokejumpers of Mann Gulch wear to protect their heads on the jump?
(a) Football helmets.
(b) Wrestling helmets.
(c) Army helmets.
(d) Pillow helmets.

15. Where did the firefighters go as the fire spread toward them in Fish Creek?
(a) They backed up to the foot of the mountain.
(b) They backed up to the sidehill trail.
(c) They backed up to the water's edge.
(d) They backed up to the fire station.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the first man to begin tagging the bodies laying along the hill at Mann Gulch?

3. Where was the author when he saw smoke coming out of black holes in the snow?

4. When was the U.S. Forest Service established?

5. Where did the burned and disabled deer die?

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