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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many trains do reporters charter from Pittsburgh to Johnstown to report on the flood?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. At what height did experts say the dam could not reach if the whole town didn't want to be threatened?
(a) 70 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 80 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

3. In what year does Pitcairn's first interest in the dam come after it wrecks railroad property?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1850.

4. In what year does Johnstown experience its first flood when a small dam breaks across Stony Creek?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1865.

5. Where does Pitcairn order the reporters' train back to at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) New York.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Cincinnati.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the South Fork dam?

2. What is the amount of salary Bill Jones accepts from Andrew Carnegie in Chapter 2?

3. How much money does the book say Cambria Iron had invested in Johnstown by the time the country club was organized?

4. What is the title of Chapter 4?

5. In what year did the South Fork dam break for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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