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Preventing Home Fires - Fire Prevention Quiz

Do you regularly check for home fire hazards?
If not, there is the potential for danger.
Fire departments responded to nearly 400,000 home fires in 2006.

Take this Fire Prevention Quiz
and see how many questions you can answer correctly.
Good Luck!

 

Instructions:
Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary;
then click on the Process Questions button at the end of the quiz
to see your score in the adjacent message box.
The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong,
only how many questions you have correct.
Go back and change your answers until you get them all right.

Points to note:
(1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each.
(2) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all
if you have not tried at least half of the questions.
(3) This quiz is for your own use only.
No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.


1. The leading causes of home fire deaths are:
   Cooking & Heating 
   Cooking & Electrical 
   Smoking & Electrical 
   Smoking & Heating 
   No Answer

2. You should stay in the kitchen when you are:
   Baking 
   Frying 
   Simmering 
   Steaming 
   No Answer

3. Most heating fire deaths are caused by:
  Chimneys 
  Furnaces 
  Space Heaters 
  Wood Stoves 
  No Answer

4. You should never smoke in a home with:
  Gas heat
  Older adults
  Oxygen in use
  Paper clutter
  No Answer

5. When you leave a room in which there is a candle burning,
    you should:
  Blow out the candle
  Move the candle away from anything that can burn
  Take children and pets with you
  Check the candle frequently
  No Answer

6. Smoke alarms should be replaced every:
  5 years
  10 years
  15 years
  20 years
  No Answer

7. Smoke alarms should be placed in:
  Bedrooms, outside sleeping areas and kitchens
  Bedrooms, outside sleeping areas & on every level of home
  Kitchens, outside sleeping areas & on every level of home
  Outside sleeping areas & on every level of the home,
        including the attic
  No Answer

8. Space heaters should be how many feet from things that can burn:
  1 feet
  2 feet
  3 feet
  4 feet
  No Answer

9. To prevent electrical shocks in the bathroom you should have:
  Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters
  Circuit Breakers
  Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters
  Tamper Resistant Receptacles
  No Answer

10. A home fire escape plan must show:
  Two fire escapes from each level & an outside meeting place
  Two outside meeting places & the fire department phone number
  Two ways out of the home and an outside meeting place
  Two way out of each room and an outside meeting place
  No Answer


     

Questions answered correctly out of 10:

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If you have tried to answer the quiz, several times,
but still can not get 10 for 10, click below for the answers.





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