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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was Mrs. Brown?
2. What important piece of equipment was broken in the parachute landing at Mann Gulch?
3. Where did the author begin running when the Fish Creek fire caught at the next fire line?
4. What did Jansson send up to the survivors of the Mann Gulch fire?
5. Where was the headquarters for Region One of the Forest Service?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the Story of the Three Winds?
3. 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?
4. Who was Robert Jansson? What was his part in the Mann Gulch fire?
5. What was the profile of a smokejumper in the 1940s?
6. What did the author know about the Mann Gulch fire based on his experience with fires as a young man?
7. How do firefighters routinely contain small forest fires?
8. Why did Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey escape death from the fire, and the other men, including Hellman and Diettert, did not?
9. What did the author learn about the Mann Gulch fire smokejumpers? How did this affect him? Why was the author so interested in the news of the Mann Gulch fire?
10. What is a Pulanski? Where did it come from? What does it do? Who is it named after?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maclean suggests that there were a set of specific and unique circumstances surrounding the jump into the Mann Gulch fire. He mentions, for example, that the radio broke upon landing leaving the Smokejumpers unable to communicate. What other specific events and circumstances made this jump unique and unusual? How did each event affect the outcome of the tragedy?
Essay Topic 2
Maclean says at the end of his story he wrote his fire report "so I could accompany young men whose lives I might have lived on their way to death. I have climbed where they climbed, and in my time I have fought fire and inquired into its nature." Discuss this quote.
Essay Topic 3
Dodge, Sallee, and Rumsey survived the Mann Gulch fire in different ways. Discuss each man's survival method. How did each of them make it out of the fire?
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