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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the first thing the author noticed about the ghost standing next to him?
(a) He wore a good pair of goggles.
(b) He wore a good pair of climbing boots.
(c) He wore a yellow jacket.
(d) He wore thick yellow gloves.

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

5. What did Harry Gisborne witness in 1929?
(a) A drift fire.
(b) A crown fire.
(c) A pitch fire.
(d) A blowup.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of boots was the author wearing while running in the Fish Creek fire?

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

4. What did the Forest Service learn from the fires in 1910?

5. What did the fire look like when it jumped the trail at Fish Creek?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Fish Creek fire look like as it jumped the trail? What choices did the author have the moment he decided to stand in front of the fire to try to put it out?

2. As the author was running up the hillside away from the creek, where was the fire? What choices did he have for escape? What happened when he was half way up the hillside?

3. Why did the author finally decide he needed to see the Mann Gulch fire the summer he was staying in his cabin at Seely Lake?

4. Why were the grasses so high on the north side at the time of the fire? What implications did this have for the Mann Gulch fire?

5. What did the ghost finally ask the author? What happened when the author answered the question? How did he react?

6. Who was Robert Jansson? What was his part in the Mann Gulch fire?

7. Why did Dodge set a fire in front of the fire raging toward himself and his men on Mann Gulch? What was he trying to accomplish? Why did his men not follow his orders?

8. What were the topographical differences in the north and the south sides of the mountains separated by Mann Gulch? What did these conditions have to do with the fire?

9. When the author returned to the spot in which he had stood when the fire jumped the trail, what did he realize about himself? What did he realize about the fire?

10. What is the Story of the Three Winds?

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