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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was responsible for the fire at the Kelly Street apartments?
(a) Someone with a grudge against a resident.
(b) One of the renters.
(c) The landlord.
(d) A disgruntled employee.

2. In which borough did Smith serve?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Bedford-Stuyvesant.
(c) South Bronx.
(d) Lower East Side.

3. What is the name of the national magazine started by Smith after writing the memoir?
(a) Firehouse.
(b) The Station.
(c) Firefighting Today.
(d) American Firefighter.

4. What did the landlord of the Kelly Street apartments do once the youths had spread the gasoline around?
(a) He tried to get the young men out.
(b) He had the young men light the gasoline.
(c) He threw a match and locked the men in.
(d) He was not at the scene.

5. Which Irish writer did Smith discuss in his letter to the editor?
(a) William Butler Yeats.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one example of a booby trap sometimes left by arsonists?

2. Which writer once suggested that the story finds the author?

3. Approximately what percentage of the fire department's calls were for actual fires?

4. Before discovering the culprit, how did Smith describe the fatal fire on Kelly Street?

5. How many injured people were found in the Kelly Street apartment?

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