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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Maclean compare the death of his wife and the death of the Smokejumpers?
(a) Loneliness and pain in the last breath.
(b) Courage stuggling for oxygen.
(c) Peace in knowing Heaven was next.
(d) Pain and sadness gasping for air.

2. What did Mike Mansfield accomplish for the families of the fallen Smokejumpers?
(a) He appointed a special advisor to assess the situation.
(b) He raised the burial allowance from $200 to $400 dollars.
(c) He tried to delay the Mann Gulch Report.
(d) He added funds to the Forest Service.

3. Who was Henry Thol, Sr.?
(a) A Smokejumper trainer.
(b) The Forest Service official responsible for public relations.
(c) The senator form Montana.
(d) Father of one of the dead Smokejumpers.

4. Of what material are the Mann Gulch crosses made?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Wood.
(c) Marble.
(d) Plastic.

5. When Sallee and Rumsey reached Hellman's cross, what did they both say to Laird and Maclean?
(a) Someone had moved the markers of some of the men.
(b) They did not want to see Mann Gulch.
(c) Hellman's cross was not in the correct place.
(d) They wanted to rest before seeing Mann Gulch.

6. How did W.R. Moore assist Maclean in his research about Mann Gulch?
(a) He ordered that all documents on the fire be sent to Washington, D.C.
(b) He ordered that all Forest Service documents on the fire be available to Maclean.
(c) He ordered that all documentation on the fire be sent to the library in Missoula.
(d) He ordered that all documentation on the fire be put on the internet.

7. What did Laird and Maclean realize early in their investigation of the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) They needed assistance from the Forest Service at the site of the fire.
(b) They needed Rumsey and Sallee with them at the site of the fire.
(c) They needed the Thol family at the site of the fire.
(d) They needed to find all of the firefighters who rescued the survivors.

8. At the end of his life, what did Maclean consider the ultimate drive of the human spirit?
(a) To cry out for compassion.
(b) To die in peace.
(c) To continue doing what we last hoped to do on earth.
(d) To escape death at any cost.

9. What did Maclean's wife die from?
(a) Esophagal cancer.
(b) Stomach cancer.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Brain cancer.

10. What began to happen at Mann Gulch forty years later?
(a) Small bushes had replaced scarred land along the hillside.
(b) Small brush fires had begun to erupt along the ridge.
(c) Small trees had begun to grow along the gulches on the hillside.
(d) Small animals had begun to return to the hillside.

11. What is "Red Skies of Montana?"
(a) The new branch of the Smokejumpers.
(b) A book written about the Mann Gulch Fire.
(c) The name given to the Gates of the Mountains.
(d) A movie made about the Mann Gulch Fire.

12. What happened to the Smokejumpers once they left Dodge and his escape fire?
(a) They were without structure and command and free to be afraid.
(b) They were certain they would wake from the horrible dream.
(c) They were unaware they were going to die in the fire.
(d) They were without knowledge as to what was happening.

13. What did Maclean call the "No Man's Land" of the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) The point at which the fire was fifty yards behind the men running in semidarkness.
(b) The point at which the men can see no escape from the fire.
(c) The point at which the fire becomes a blowup.
(d) The point at which the men can run niether forward nor backward.

14. What did Maclean and the others agree was the second key point on the hillside they needed to locate?
(a) The spot where Dodge had started his fire.
(b) The spot where Henry Thol, Jr. fell.
(c) The spot where Diettert left Rumsey and Sallee.
(d) The spot where the fire blew up.

15. What did Maclean say was evidence of the strength of the fire when it hit the Smokejumpers on the ridge?
(a) It singed the hair on their heads.
(b) It blew the clothes off of their bodies.
(c) It blew the watches from their wrists.
(d) It melted the soles of their shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are in the Common Book of Prayer that beg to not die of sudden death?

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

3. What is a gofer match?

4. What were the only sensations the men running from the fire were aware of?

5. What did Sallee and Rumsey say as they went up the last hillside?

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