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Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Hold Fast to Your Children: Death in Hot Water, 'These Animals Are Not Real': The Myth That Can Kill You!

1. The author, Lee H. Whittlesey, was a Yellowstone Park Ranger and later a ______ student.
(a) Med.
(b) Art.
(c) Law.
(d) Doctoral.

2. The author studied _______________________ cases in Yellowstone.
(a) Influenza outbreak.
(b) Malarial.
(c) Wrongful death and personal injury.
(d) Automobile accident.

3. In most Yellowstone cases, the author argues, the ______________ are simply incorrect that the injury or death suffered was a true accident.
(a) Victims.
(b) Locals.
(c) Park rangers.
(d) Families.

4. Death in Yellowstone covers ____________ hundred deaths and each one was a very emotional story for someone, so the author has tried to be delicate.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

5. On July 20th, _________, David Allen Kirwan, 24, and his friend, Ronald Ratliff, 25, parked at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1819.

6. While they view the springs, Ratliff's dog 'Mossie', a large Mastiff, escaped from the car and jumped into Celestine Pool, which routinely measures _______ degrees Fahrenheit.
(a) 102.
(b) 148.
(c) 202.
(d) 184.

7. Kirwan prepared to go in the spring and a bystander yelled what?
(a) To hurry up.
(b) To test the temperature of the water.
(c) Not to do so.
(d) To be careful.

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