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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a Pulaski?
(a) Half-shovel and half-ax.
(b) Half-ax and half-spade.
(c) Half-ax and half-hoe.
(d) Half-hoe and half-shovel.
2. What was the severely burned deer doing as the author watched?
(a) Eating leaves.
(b) Looking at the fire.
(c) Running back and forth across a road.
(d) Drinking water.
3. What was the first thing the author noticed about the ghost standing next to him?
(a) He wore thick yellow gloves.
(b) He wore a good pair of climbing boots.
(c) He wore a good pair of goggles.
(d) He wore a yellow jacket.
4. Who did the author first think the voice he heard in the fire belonged to?
(a) His partner.
(b) His imagination.
(c) A member of the pickup crew.
(d) A farmer trapped in the fire.
5. Where was the author's cabin located?
(a) In Seeley Lake, Montana.
(b) In Missoula, Montana.
(c) In Smiley Lake, Montanta.
(d) In Mann Gulch, Montana.
Short Answer Questions
1. What animal was Fish Creek known for having in abundance?
2. How many feet does a Smokejumper fall before his parachute opens?
3. What was Frank Derry wearing on one infamous jump?
4. Where was the headquarters for Region One of the Forest Service?
5. What was one reasonable cause of the Mann Gulch fire advanced by scientists?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the author returned to the spot in which he had stood when the fire jumped the trail, what did he realize about himself? What did he realize about the fire?
2. How did the firefighters at the Forest Service think the fire would spread? Why did they think the fire starters had the same idea?
3. Who invented the first parachutes? What were parachutes and their cords made of then? What material were they made of in 1949 when the Smokejumpers landed on Mann Gulch? Why?
4. When was the fire at Mann Gulch? Where was the author at the time of the fire? When the author arrived in the small town at Seely Lake, how did he learn of the fire at Mann Gulch? What did he learn about the death of the smokejumpers who were sent to fight the fire?
5. Why did Dodge set a fire in front of the fire raging toward himself and his men on Mann Gulch? What was he trying to accomplish? Why did his men not follow his orders?
6. How were the Smokejumpers delivered to the drop site? Who was on the plane with them? What did each man do in the mission?
7. To what did Maclean compare the smokejumper's jump from the plane? Why?
8. What actually happened at the Fish Creek fire that was not part of the plan? How did the fire spread? What surprises of nature awaited the Forest Service firefighters?
9. Why were the grasses so high on the north side at the time of the fire? What implications did this have for the Mann Gulch fire?
10. Why did Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey escape death from the fire, and the other men, including Hellman and Diettert, did not?
This section contains 1,446 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
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