Firefighter 1 Practice Test Questions With Complete
Solutions
1. Each firefighter accident or injury must be thoroughly
investigated for two reasons. One is to determine why it
happened and the other is to:
A. determine its classification under the S.I.M.P.L.E. system.
B. preclude any civil liability situation should it happen again.
C. determine whether or not a de-facto feasance occurred.
D. determine how it can be avoided in the future. Correct
Answers D
1. Which is one of the keys to improving a firefighter's physical
health?
A. Gender/ethnic background
B. Fire Service traditions
C. Health screening
D. Union involvement Correct Answers C
10. What should be on the mind of a firefighter who answers the
telephone in a fire department facility?
A. That the firefighter is a representative of the fire department
B. To be brief, so that the incoming phone line will be open to
receive emergency calls
,C. Obtain all information; then hang up first to avoid tying up
the phone line.
D. Leaving the person on hold for as long as it takes to relay and
verify information received Correct Answers A
100. Combustion is the result of a reaction.
A. mechanical B. chemical C. dielectrical D. replenishment
Correct Answers B
101. What are toxic products of combustion?
A. convection, conduction, radiation, and direct contact
B. fire gases, flame, chemical chain reaction
C. water vapor and soot
D. carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide. Correct Answers D
102. How are flammability limits and explosive limits related?
A. Flammability limits are used to calculate explosive limits.
B. Explosive limits are used to calculate flammability limits.
C. The two terms are neither mathematically nor conceptuality
related.
D. They are interchangeable terms meaning the same thing.
Correct Answers D
103. If a gas has a vapor density greater than one, when it
escapes from its container:
A. it will rise.
B. it will float on water.
,C. its movement will be dependent on temperature.
D. it will sink and collect at low points. Correct Answers D
104. Which is a mode of heat transfer'?
A. Conduction B. Evaporation C. Latent heat D. Pyrolysis
Correct Answers A
105. A class A fire is fueled by:
A. electricity.
C. liquids.
B. ordinary combustible materials.
D. gases. Correct Answers B
106. The stages/phases of solid fuel fire development are:
A. initial, growth, developed, decline.
B. incipient/ignition, growth, fully developed, decay.
C. origin, intermediate, growth, decline.
D. spontaneous, incipient, growth, decay. Correct Answers B
107. The temperature at which a liquid fuel produces sufficient
vapors to support combustion once the fuel is ignited is the:
A. fire point.
C. ignition point.
B. flash point.
D. vapor density. Correct Answers A
, 108. Vapors and gases with vapor densities less than 1 will tend
to:
A. rise up in the air.
C. drop to the ground.
B. dissipate as they mix.
D. float as a cloud. Correct Answers A
109. It is important that a firefighter understand the four
stages/phases of fire growth which are:
A. ignition/incipient, pre-flashover, post-flashover, and decay.
B. growth, flashover, post-flashover, and decay.
C. ignition, growth, pre-flashover, and decay.
D. ignition/incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay.
Correct Answers D
11. The standardized term used to signal the immediate need to
clear the radio and transmit critical information is.
A. Emergency Traffic.
C. Signal 2.
B. 10-99.
D. Critical Alert. Correct Answers A
110. A type of wood framing that has vertical channels going
from floor to floor. allowing a fire to travel uninterrupted is a
____frame.
Solutions
1. Each firefighter accident or injury must be thoroughly
investigated for two reasons. One is to determine why it
happened and the other is to:
A. determine its classification under the S.I.M.P.L.E. system.
B. preclude any civil liability situation should it happen again.
C. determine whether or not a de-facto feasance occurred.
D. determine how it can be avoided in the future. Correct
Answers D
1. Which is one of the keys to improving a firefighter's physical
health?
A. Gender/ethnic background
B. Fire Service traditions
C. Health screening
D. Union involvement Correct Answers C
10. What should be on the mind of a firefighter who answers the
telephone in a fire department facility?
A. That the firefighter is a representative of the fire department
B. To be brief, so that the incoming phone line will be open to
receive emergency calls
,C. Obtain all information; then hang up first to avoid tying up
the phone line.
D. Leaving the person on hold for as long as it takes to relay and
verify information received Correct Answers A
100. Combustion is the result of a reaction.
A. mechanical B. chemical C. dielectrical D. replenishment
Correct Answers B
101. What are toxic products of combustion?
A. convection, conduction, radiation, and direct contact
B. fire gases, flame, chemical chain reaction
C. water vapor and soot
D. carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide. Correct Answers D
102. How are flammability limits and explosive limits related?
A. Flammability limits are used to calculate explosive limits.
B. Explosive limits are used to calculate flammability limits.
C. The two terms are neither mathematically nor conceptuality
related.
D. They are interchangeable terms meaning the same thing.
Correct Answers D
103. If a gas has a vapor density greater than one, when it
escapes from its container:
A. it will rise.
B. it will float on water.
,C. its movement will be dependent on temperature.
D. it will sink and collect at low points. Correct Answers D
104. Which is a mode of heat transfer'?
A. Conduction B. Evaporation C. Latent heat D. Pyrolysis
Correct Answers A
105. A class A fire is fueled by:
A. electricity.
C. liquids.
B. ordinary combustible materials.
D. gases. Correct Answers B
106. The stages/phases of solid fuel fire development are:
A. initial, growth, developed, decline.
B. incipient/ignition, growth, fully developed, decay.
C. origin, intermediate, growth, decline.
D. spontaneous, incipient, growth, decay. Correct Answers B
107. The temperature at which a liquid fuel produces sufficient
vapors to support combustion once the fuel is ignited is the:
A. fire point.
C. ignition point.
B. flash point.
D. vapor density. Correct Answers A
, 108. Vapors and gases with vapor densities less than 1 will tend
to:
A. rise up in the air.
C. drop to the ground.
B. dissipate as they mix.
D. float as a cloud. Correct Answers A
109. It is important that a firefighter understand the four
stages/phases of fire growth which are:
A. ignition/incipient, pre-flashover, post-flashover, and decay.
B. growth, flashover, post-flashover, and decay.
C. ignition, growth, pre-flashover, and decay.
D. ignition/incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay.
Correct Answers D
11. The standardized term used to signal the immediate need to
clear the radio and transmit critical information is.
A. Emergency Traffic.
C. Signal 2.
B. 10-99.
D. Critical Alert. Correct Answers A
110. A type of wood framing that has vertical channels going
from floor to floor. allowing a fire to travel uninterrupted is a
____frame.
