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

2. What did the author feel while he was running away from the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Fear.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Excitement.

3. Where did Gisborne die?
(a) In Missoula.
(b) On Mount Jennie.
(c) On the Missouri River.
(d) On the climb up Rescue Gulch.

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

5. Who was the spotter on the C-47 that dropped Smokejumpers into Mann Gulch?
(a) Earl Cooley.
(b) Wag Dodge.
(c) John Thol.
(d) Fred Stillings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did the author ask Mrs. Brown before leaving the lodge?

2. What was the temperature in Helena when the Smokejumpers landed in Mann Gulch?

3. What is a "fire whirl?"

4. Why are parachutes made of nylon instead of silk?

5. Where had the author's boots come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author learn about the Mann Gulch fire smokejumpers? How did this affect him? Why was the author so interested in the news of the Mann Gulch fire?

2. 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?

3. To what did Maclean compare the smokejumper's jump from the plane? Why?

4. 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?

5. What did the author know about the Mann Gulch fire based on his experience with fires as a young man?

6. Who invented the first parachutes? What were parachutes and their cords made of then? What material were they made of in 1949 when the Smokejumpers landed on Mann Gulch? Why?

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

8. What is the Story of the Three Winds?

9. 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?

10. What was the profile of a smokejumper in the 1940s?

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