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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What field did Smith's wife want him to go into instead of firefighting?
(a) Sanitation.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Teaching.

2. Who was responsible for the most malicious false alarms?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Children.
(c) Adults.
(d) Criminals.

3. Why does Smith call firefighters the most "ubiquitous" civil servants?
(a) They respond to calls involving each and every natural and man-made disaster.
(b) They are the civil servants who most frequently interact with individuals.
(c) They are the best funded of all civil service departments.
(d) They are the most numerous civil servants.

4. What did the kids across the street from the Union Avenue fire do when the firefighters arrived?
(a) They asked the firefighters to give them a ride.
(b) They sang.
(c) They cheered.
(d) They chanted and yelled insults.

5. What happened to Dennis as a child involving cockroaches?
(a) He had discovered dozens of cockroaches in the refrigerator.
(b) He had drunk from a bottle and almost swallowed a cockroach.
(c) He had woken up at night to find himself covered with cockroaches.
(d) He had accidentally eaten a cockroach hidden in food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Smith think his school principal and mother were wrong to lament his dropping out?

2. What did the landlord of the Kelly Street apartments do once the youths had spread the gasoline around?

3. Who was responsible for the fire at the Kelly Street apartments?

4. What did the newspaper article say a firefighter rescued following a rubbish fire?

5. Why did the firefighters think the car in the middle of Stebbins Avenue was stolen?

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