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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What year is generally seen as the beginning of modern scientific study of fire behavior?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1918.
2. What did the author feel while he was running away from the Fish Creek fire?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Fear.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Confusion.
3. What does the sculpture at the University of Chicago commemorating the Atomic Age look like?
(a) Both a mushroom and a skull.
(b) Both a mushroom and a planet.
(c) Both a womb and a mushroom.
(d) Both a skull and a womb.
4. What did Laird and Maclean realize early in their investigation of the Mann Gulch fire?
(a) They needed assistance from the Forest Service at the site of the fire.
(b) They needed the Thol family at the site of the fire.
(c) They needed to find all of the firefighters who rescued the survivors.
(d) They needed Rumsey and Sallee with them at the site of the fire.
5. How did the author describe the sound of the fire getting very close?
(a) Like the sound of cracking bones.
(b) Like the sound of breaking glass.
(c) Like the sound of whistles.
(d) Like the sound of a waterfall.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Maclean's wife die from?
2. Where did the author begin running when the Fish Creek fire caught at the next fire line?
3. How many Smokejumpers died fighting the Mann Gulch fire?
4. In Maclean's mind, what did the Ponderosa pines look like during the fire?
5. Of what material are the Mann Gulch crosses made?
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