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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many feet does a Smokejumper fall before his parachute opens?
2. Who were the three men who ran toward the ridge together to escape the fire?
3. What was the temperature in Helena when the Smokejumpers landed in Mann Gulch?
4. What did the Smokejumpers of Mann Gulch wear to protect their heads on the jump?
5. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?
2. When was the fire at Mann Gulch? Where was the author at the time of the fire? When the author arrived in the small town at Seely Lake, how did he learn of the fire at Mann Gulch? What did he learn about the death of the smokejumpers who were sent to fight the 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. 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?
5. 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?
6. How do firefighters routinely contain small forest fires?
7. What was the profile of a smokejumper in the 1940s?
8. 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?
9. What is the Story of the Three Winds?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When he was young, Maclean worked for the Forest Service. His experience fighting one particular fire greatly influenced his desire to study the Mann Gulch fire. What was that experience? Why was it important?
Essay Topic 2
What is The Story of the Three Winds? Whose theory is this? What does it contribute to the understanding of the Mann Gulch fire?
Essay Topic 3
In the final chapter, Maclean used a series of metaphors to describe the Mann Gulch fire. What are those metaphors? Why are they successful or unsuccessful in the telling of the story?
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