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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14, Fatal Attraction: Deaths From Falls, Deaths From Forest Fires: Smoke Chasing Can Kill, The Gloom of Earthquakes: Shaky Breaky Park, Danger in the Water: Deaths From Drowning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When bears attack, are they at fault?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) Usually.
(d) No.

2. Six people have drowned in fairly unusual places, such as ________________ Lake and Hellroaring Creek.
(a) Bradley.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Gallatin.
(d) Jenny.

3. However, the Yellowstone River has claimed ____________________ lives.
(a) Fifty-one.
(b) Forty-one.
(c) Thirty-one.
(d) Twenty-one.

4. It is more common than one would think in Montana, but not ______________.
(a) Nevada.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Colorado.

5. Two hard-and-fast rules in Yellowstone are what?
(a) To keep children in sight and to never bring pets.
(b) To not go near thermal areas and to stay in your tent at night.
(c) To follow marked trails only and to avoid leaving food in open containers.
(d) To not walk or ski in a thermal area in dark or blizzard conditions and to always camp in your assigned backcountry site.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry Walker, 25, on Friday, ____________________, hitchhiked into Yellowstone Park illegally with his friend 'Crow.'

2. Seven have drowned in ________________ Lake.

3. ______________________ occur in Yellowstone nearly every day but no known deaths have been caused by them.

4. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?

5. How deep is this dangerous lake in some places?

(see the answer key)

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