View a FREE sample

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. Whittlesey then discusses the case of John Mark Williams, who is the only person to die in a hot springs when?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the spring.
(c) In the fall.
(d) In the summer.

2. The clinic at Old Faithful could only do what for Kirwin?
(a) Give him glasses of water.
(b) Give him a large bandage.
(c) Surgically remove the burned skin.
(d) Pump IV fluids into his body.

3. Seven have drowned from _______________ and due to falling in the Gardner River.
(a) Wagon wrecks.
(b) Skiing.
(c) Car wrecks.
(d) Iceskating.

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

5. Two women died in __________________ in 1901 though the park ranger failed to reported it.
(a) The Palm Springs.
(b) The Thumb Paintpots.
(c) The Foothills.
(d) The Finger Lakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The era of drowning began in the __________________, when many private boats and boat rentals occurred there.

2. 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?

3. In most Yellowstone cases, the author argues, the ______________ are simply incorrect that the injury or death suffered was a true accident.

4. Josey fell into a pool trying to help a _________ and was badly burned.

5. What is known about these early incidents?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 245 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample