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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) Pain and sadness gasping for air.
(b) Peace in knowing Heaven was next.
(c) Loneliness and pain in the last breath.
(d) Courage stuggling for oxygen.

2. What was one of many reasons Maclean thought Henry Thol, Sr. should be proud of his son?
(a) His son was not alone when he died.
(b) His son was the closest man to the top of the ridge.
(c) His son carried a picture of his family with him.
(d) His son died while protecting another man.

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

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

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

6. To what does a woodsman look for both the questions and their answers?
(a) The trees.
(b) The sky.
(c) The ground.
(d) The grasses.

7. Who was C.A. Gustafson?
(a) The Speaker of the House.
(b) The Forest Service's Chief of Fire Control.
(c) The father of one of the dead Smokejumpers.
(d) The pilot of the plane that dropped the Smokejumpers.

8. Who is one of the best bibliographical references about the Mann Gulch fire available to Laird and Maclean?
(a) The postmistress of a nearby logging town.
(b) The Forest Service land office manager.
(c) The chief librarian at the New York City Library.
(d) The head librarian at the local library.

9. What words are in the Common Book of Prayer that beg to not die of sudden death?
(a) "Good Lord, be my shepherd."
(b) "Good Lord, deliver us."
(c) "Good Lord, help us."
(d) "Good Lord, watch over us."

10. What did the blowup and its fire rising out of Mann Gulch look like?
(a) An atomic explosion in Montana on its way to Nebraska.
(b) An atomic explosion in a laboratory in Arizona.
(c) An atomic explosion as seen on television.
(d) An atomic explosion in Nevada on its way to Utah.

11. What is a gofer match?
(a) A stick match pulled from a matchbox.
(b) A small torch made by lighting rolled paper.
(c) A cigarette lighter.
(d) A paper match pulled from a matchbook.

12. What time was recorded on the watch found near the bodies?
(a) Four minutes to six.
(b) Twenty minutes to ten.
(c) Nine thirty.
(d) Three forty-five.

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

14. What did thinking about the struggle for oxygen that the Smokejumpers' experienced remind the author of?
(a) The death of his wife.
(b) The birth experience.
(c) The importance of fire safety.
(d) The death of Hellman.

15. What did Maclean believe the atomic mushroom to be a symbol of in the 20th century?
(a) A symbol of American supremacy in firefighting.
(b) A symbol of everything wrong with governmental agencies such as the Forest Service.
(c) A symbol of our inner fear of the explosive power of the universe.
(d) A symbol of the future of science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the crosses that mark the spots the Smokejumpers fell, defeated by the fire?

2. What did Maclean say was evidence of the strength of the fire when it hit the Smokejumpers on the ridge?

3. What promise did the Forest Service make to Maclean?

4. What happened to the Smokejumpers once they left Dodge and his escape fire?

5. Who did Maclean meet who finally makes the connection for him to Robert Sallee?

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