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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. For what organization did the Smokejumpers work?
(a) The National Guard.
(b) The Forest Service.
(c) The Army.
(d) The Air Force.

2. When did the author work for the Forest Service?
(a) During the Korean War.
(b) During World War I.
(c) During World War II.
(d) During college.

3. Where was the Fish Creek fire when the author finally stopped running?
(a) East of him.
(b) Directly behind him.
(c) West of him.
(d) Both in front of and behind him.

4. Where was the author when he saw smoke coming out of black holes in the snow?
(a) While hunting in Fish Creek.
(b) While returning home from the Fish Creek fire.
(c) While staying in Lolo Hot Springs.
(d) While ice fishing on the lake.

5. Where did the Fish Creek fire actually burn?
(a) Across the back acres of the forest.
(b) Through the forest to the town.
(c) Both up and down the tributary.
(d) Down the tributary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many men fought the Mann Gulch fire?

3. When did the author first hear a voice in the fire during the Fish Creek fire?

4. How did Dodge die five years after the fire?

5. What was one reasonable cause of the Mann Gulch fire advanced by scientists?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was the ranger station in which the author was stationed? What was the commonly held belief about the Fish Creek fire? Why was this theory reasonable?

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

3. What important question did the author ask Mrs. Brown after his experience with the fire at Fish Creek? What was her answer?

4. Why did Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey escape death from the fire, and the other men, including Hellman and Diettert, did not?

5. What actually happened at the Fish Creek fire that was not part of the plan? How did the fire spread? What surprises of nature awaited the Forest Service firefighters?

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

7. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?

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

9. 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?

10. How were the Smokejumpers delivered to the drop site? Who was on the plane with them? What did each man do in the mission?

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