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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. What did the author do when he reached the mountain ridge, having escaped the Fish Creek fire?
2. What did the ghost do to the author while the two were on the mountainside?
3. What did the author hear a voice say to him as he ran to avoid being killed in the Fish Creek fire?
4. Where was the Fish Creek fire when the author finally stopped running?
5. Who were the only permanent residents of the town near the author's cabin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Robert Jansson? What was his part in the Mann Gulch fire?
2. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?
3. How did the firefighters at the Forest Service think the fire would spread? Why did they think the fire starters had the same idea?
4. 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?
5. What did the ghost finally ask the author? What happened when the author answered the question? How did he react?
6. 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?
7. Why did Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey escape death from the fire, and the other men, including Hellman and Diettert, did not?
8. 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?
9. What did the author learn about the Mann Gulch fire smokejumpers? How did this affect him? Why was the author so interested in the news of the Mann Gulch fire?
10. To what did Maclean compare the smokejumper's jump from the plane? Why?
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
Point of view is important in any storytelling. What is this story's point of view? Does the author display particular bias toward one theory or another? One group or another? Has Maclean been trustworthy as a storyteller? Discuss using examples.
Essay Topic 3
Who was Frank Derry? For what comic stunt is he known? What were some of his contributions to fire fighting?
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