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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. Prevailing winds can produce waves __________________ feet high.
(a) Four to five.
(b) Two to three.
(c) Five to six.
(d) Three to four.

2. What is one of these deadly plants?
(a) Poison ivy.
(b) Nightshade.
(c) Angel's trumpet.
(d) Water hemlock.

3. Stones on hillsides are not stationary and _____________ deaths have been caused in Yellowstone from falling rocks.
(a) Four to five.
(b) Five to six.
(c) Two to three.
(d) Three to four.

4. James filed a wrongful death lawsuit and received _______________.
(a) $15,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $20,000.
(d) $200,000.

5. As of 1995, ___________________ people have died from falls in Yellowstone, four from man-made structures, three from mounts and the rest into canyons.
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________________ people have drowned in Yellowstone Lake and eleven (maybe seventeen) are of unrecovered bodies.

2. Whittelsey was a ___________________ at the time.

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

4. What else is important regarding the boat?

5. Andy's father, named James Hecht, wrote who to encourage him to take positive action and he and his wife organized to make the National Park Service commit to improved safety?

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