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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. What would cost $3,000?
(a) Sending the bears away.
(b) Catching the bears to put them in pens.
(c) Tracking one bear.
(d) Euthanizing the bears.

2. The worst accident happened June 28th, __________, when Andy C. Hect, 9, was walking with his family along Crested Pool near Old Faithful.
(a) 1980.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1960.

3. Robert Walker, age 6, died from what?
(a) A rainstorm that uprooted 176 trees.
(b) A gust of wind that uprooted 176 trees.
(c) A flood that uprooted 176 trees.
(d) An earthquake that uprooted 176 trees.

4. Why has Yellowstone never been extensively logged for timber?
(a) There is not a great amount of wood available.
(b) There is no need for the wood at Yellowstone.
(c) it was set aside by Congress before settlers arrived.
(d) The trees are of poor quality.

5. A _________________ was killed by lightening in the park on August 27th, 1894, named Bayard T. "Curley" Rogers.
(a) Guide, animal trainer, and teacher.
(b) Doctor, hunter, and trapper.
(c) Veterinarian, guide, and animal trainer.
(d) Trapper, hunter and guide.

Short Answer Questions

1. On July 20th, _________, David Allen Kirwan, 24, and his friend, Ronald Ratliff, 25, parked at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot.

2. Mrs. Louis Helbut died in _______________ from fainting.

3. George Wingate caused an avalanche in 1885. Was anyone hurt?

4. _____________ people have died in avalanches and at least eight from freezing or what is called 'exposure.'

5. The injuries began early, at least in _________ when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the area.

(see the answer key)

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