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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the firefighters find on Freeman Street during one of the calls in Chapter 3?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A burning store.
(c) A man injured in a fight.
(d) A car accident.

2. Where was the last false alarm of the day called from, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Long Island Road.
(b) Manhattan Road.
(c) Trenton Road.
(d) Boston Road.

3. What happened to the young man seen running from the Kelly Street apartment?
(a) He was burned over 70 percent of his body.
(b) He was pronouced DOA at the hospital.
(c) He made a full recovery.
(d) He fled and never went to the hospital.

4. What orders did the doctors give Smith after his injury from the Prospect Avenue fire?
(a) Get extra sleep.
(b) Do not talk at all.
(c) Do not work for a few weeks.
(d) Do not talk much or smoke for a few weeks.

5. How does Smith envision false alarms occurring in richer neighborhoods?
(a) Visitors from the South Bronx pull the alarms.
(b) Residents panic at the slightest sign of trouble and pull the alarms.
(c) Residents accidently hit the alarms.
(d) Europeans mistake alarm boxes for mail boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Smith find buried under the rubble at the Charlotte Street apartment in Chapter 5?

2. Which Irish writer did Smith discuss in his letter to the editor?

3. What was the Kelly Street apartment landlord charged with after the fire?

4. What is the term Smith used to describe a challenging fire?

5. Who was responsible for the most malicious false alarms?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the other firefighters look at Artie, the firefighter with the beard and degree in sociology?

2. Describe how fireman Jim Stack fought the apartment fire at 1284 Fox in Chapter 3.

3. How does the fire department announce the death of a fellow firefighter in the line of duty?

4. As the fire truck responded to the call on Wilkens Avenue in Chapter 3, what experience did Smith flash back to?

5. Why, according to Dennis Smith, were so many false alarms were pulled in the South Bronx?

6. Why does Smith say city workers were fleeing cities to live in the suburbs?

7. What does Dennis Smith think should be done with people who pull malicious false alarms, and why?

8. Besides the risks to firefighters, what does Dennis Smith believe is a real risk of malicious false alarms?

9. What did the South Bronx neighbors do in an attempt to stop malicious false alarms from the Hoe Avenue alarm box and was it effective?

10. What did the firemen mean by the term "tough shit" during their discussion of the arson fire in Chapter 1?

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