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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25, Powerless in Eden: Deaths From Suicide, Missing and Presumed Dead, Deaths From Gas Stove Explosions and Structural Fires, Deaths From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Travel in Wonderland: Death on the Road and in the Air, Conclusion: Pay Attent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. National parks are valuable but what?
(a) They are expensive.
(b) The wild creates danger.
(c) They are beautiful.
(d) The wild can be tamed.

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

3. How does the author suggest that people get more in touch with nature?
(a) By studying bears.
(b) By living in the wilderness.
(c) By learning about it.
(d) By watching nature videos.

4. The Blackfeet to the _____________ and the Crows to the northeast.
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) North.

5. Yellowstone has only _______ of these dangerous species.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. This lake is 136 square miles with ____________ miles of shoreline.

2. Phillip Bassett died on May 1st, 1884 from what?

3. Death in Yellowstone covers ____________ hundred deaths and each one was a very emotional story for someone, so the author has tried to be delicate.

4. Who was the only person to die in a cave-in?

5. What is known about these early incidents?

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