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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 Maclean believe the Smokejumpers had accomplished spiritually at the time of their deaths?
2. What does the sculpture at the University of Chicago commemorating the Atomic Age look like?
3. According to Sallee and Rumsey, toward the end of their run, how many times did the smoke part in order for them to see the top of the ridge?
4. What began to happen at Mann Gulch forty years later?
5. What happened to the Smokejumpers once they left Dodge and his escape fire?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Maclean explain the picture of a big fire? What was it made up of in his opinion?
2. What was the movie released in 1952 about the Mann Gulch fire? What does Maclean note about the film and its historic accuracy?
3. How did the author describe the final moments of the men's lives before the fire overtook them? What elements of nature were prominent in their lives just before their deaths? How did they actually die?
4. What did the author mean when he spoke of bi-visual and tri-visual?
5. What did Maclean mean when he said, "viewing total conflagration is literally blinding, as sight becomes sound."
6. What happened to the men when they left the foreman, Dodge, at the site of the escape fire? What name did the author give to the point at which the men left? From what perspective did the author tell the story of their assent?
7. What did the gulch look like forty years after the fire? Was there any living vegetation?
8. To what did the author compare the cloud of smoke atop the Mann Gulch fire when the blowup rose out of the gulch?
9. How did the perspective shift as the author continued his discussion of the fire from looking at the mushroom cloud in the sky? What did he hope to learn by changing perspective?
10. When did Maclean begin research on the Mann Gulch fire? What where his first steps?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who was Frank Derry? For what comic stunt is he known? What were some of his contributions to fire fighting?
Essay Topic 2
When speaking about the young men who were Smokejumpers in the 1940s, Maclean explains that these men wanted to make it clear "to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store." Discuss this quote in light of the profile of a typical smokejumper, and the specific Smokejumpers who landed in Mann Gulch into the fire.
Essay Topic 3
How did the Standard Fire Fighting Orders written in 1957 come to be written? On whose general orders was the fire fighting orders based? How did this happen?
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