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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. Both gases are found in high concentrations where?
(a) In the forest and ponds.
(b) In caves and caverns.
(c) In the thermal areas and the caves.
(d) In thermal areas and pools of water.

2. Most of the river drownings are due to what?
(a) Storms.
(b) Intoxicated swimmers.
(c) Extreme currents and rapids.
(d) Deep water.

3. What did the bear do with Walker?
(a) It bit him.
(b) It ran away from him.
(c) It ignored him.
(d) It dragged him away.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. New trails were carved for what purpose?

2. The bear charged Crow and did what?

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

4. The judge for the case wanted what along boardwalks?

5. Only _______________ hundred of the world's three hundred thousand species of plans have caused death or serious illness to those in the western hemisphere.

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