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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 did Dodge survive the fire?
2. What did the author hear a voice say to him as he ran to avoid being killed in the Fish Creek fire?
3. Why were Sylvia and Hellman not suffering from their burns?
4. What was the temperature in Helena when the Smokejumpers landed in Mann Gulch?
5. In the Fish Creek fire, where was the author standing when the fire jumped?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What important question did the author ask Mrs. Brown after his experience with the fire at Fish Creek? What was her answer?
3. 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?
4. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?
5. What is the Story of the Three Winds?
6. What was the profile of a smokejumper in the 1940s?
7. 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?
8. What did the author know about hiking boots? Why were they important? What kind of boots was he wearing the day of the Fish Creek fire? Why?
9. How did the firefighters at the Forest Service think the fire would spread? Why did they think the fire starters had the same idea?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maclean stated that one important part of his investigation was to learn if anything good had come from the Mann Gulch fire. What were some of the changes made by the foremen, spotters, pilots, and Smokejumpers to ensure their safety during a fire? What was the logic behind these changes?
Essay Topic 2
Maclean and Laird Richardson developed three main questions for which they would seek answers during their study of the Mann Gulch fire. What were those three questions, and did the two men find the answers? If so, what were the answers they found?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout his story, Maclean used religious symbolism, metaphors, and beliefs to write about the fire. Discuss the influence of religion in Maclean's telling of the Mann Gulch fire.
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