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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 die five years after the fire?
2. How many acres of land burned in the Mann Gulch fire?
3. What did Gisborne want to do on Mann Gulch?
4. What kind of boots was the author wearing while running in the Fish Creek fire?
5. What important accomplishment did Louis-Sebastien Lenormand achieve in 1783?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what did Maclean compare the smokejumper's jump from the plane? Why?
2. 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?
3. What did the Fish Creek fire look like as it jumped the trail? What choices did the author have the moment he decided to stand in front of the fire to try to put it out?
4. 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?
5. What did the author do when he reached the top of the ridge? What did he decide to do next?
6. What are the two causes of fires? What caused the Mann Gulch fire? Where did the fire start? How?
7. Who was Harry T. Gisborne? What was his contribution to the history of firefighting, and understanding the Mann Gulch fire in particular?
8. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?
9. What was the profile of a smokejumper in the 1940s?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maclean says at the end of his story he wrote his fire report "so I could accompany young men whose lives I might have lived on their way to death. I have climbed where they climbed, and in my time I have fought fire and inquired into its nature." Discuss this quote.
Essay Topic 2
The escape fire Wag Dodge set on the ridge was an important part of the story of the fire. Equally, his fire was a controversial part of the story. Discuss the escape fire, why it was set, the theory behind how it worked, and why it was controversial.
Essay Topic 3
What is The Story of the Three Winds? Whose theory is this? What does it contribute to the understanding of the Mann Gulch fire?
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