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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. Where did Bob Moore and Maclean discover they had both worked in their youths?
2. What is a gofer match?
3. Of what material are the Mann Gulch crosses made?
4. What was the one thought the Smokejumpers shared as they ran from the fire?
5. What sculptor's piece stands at the University of Chicago commemorating the Atomic Age?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What two emotions governed the analysis of the tragedy at Mann Gulch? How did Maclean describe the first emotion among the men in Mann Gulch?
3. How did the Forest Service receive Maclean when he began searching for the documentation on the Mann Gulch fire? Why?
4. What was it like when the fire reached its height and totally covered the landscape? To what did Maclean compare the fire at this point?
5. Who is the firsthand source of information Maclean and his investigative partner Laird Robinson set out to find before they did anything else? Why? Who were they looking for?
6. Why did both parents and the Forest Service hope for silence after the court judgments concerning suits filed against the Forest Service?
7. What did the land in Mann Gulch look like in the aftermath of the fire?
8. As Maclean began his comparison of the Smokejumpers' run to the top of the ridge to a race run on a track, how did he compare the race run by the Smokejumpers and that of the athlete on a track?
9. 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?
10. What did the gulch look like forty years after the fire? Was there any living vegetation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maclean discussed different types of fires in his story and explains that these different fires converged at Mann Gulch. How did Maclean explain the Mann Gulch fire in terms of types of fires? Why is it important to the credibility of the story to understand different types of fires?
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
Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey survived the Mann Gulch fire in different ways. Discuss each man's survival method. How did each of them make it out of the fire?
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