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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. How did Dodge die five years after the fire?
(a) Hodgkin's disease.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Parkinson's.
(d) Heart attack.

2. What happened to Jansson after the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) He divorced his wife, who could not understand him.
(b) He became ill and died.
(c) He asked to be transferred to another location.
(d) He moved to Idaho.

3. Who did the author believe started the forest fire at Fish Creek?
(a) The sheep herders.
(b) Local hoodlums.
(c) The homesteaders.
(d) The fire deparment.

4. What did the ghost do to the author while the two were on the mountainside?
(a) Slapped him in the face.
(b) Tripped him.
(c) Pushed him down the mountainside.
(d) Punched him in the stomach.

5. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Took in huge gulps of air.
(b) Put out the fire on his shoelaces.
(c) Cried.
(d) Sat down to rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Smokejumpers of Mann Gulch wear to protect their heads on the jump?

2. What was the first thing the author noticed about the ghost standing next to him?

3. What would have happened had the author stepped across the fire immediately when it jumped the trail?

4. What did Rumsey fall into that caused him to stop running when he jumped from the crevice?

5. What question does a Smokejumper foreman ask while fighting a fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was the big fire the author had fought when he was in the Forest Service? How did the people living in the area support themselves and their families?

2. What is a crown fire? How does it become ignited? What does it sound like in the forest? What elements are necessary to create a crown fire?

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. 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?

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

6. How did the firefighters at the Forest Service think the fire would spread? Why did they think the fire starters had the same idea?

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

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. Where was the author when the fire spread to the side hill trail, the firefighters' second line of defense? What important decision did he make right as he saw the fire jump from one side of the trail to the other?

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

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