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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rides back and forth on horseback trying to exhort the men to dig harder on fixing the dam in Chapter 3?
(a) John Hess.
(b) John Fulton.
(c) Cyrus Elder.
(d) John G. Parke.

2. What birthday is the United States ready to celebrate the year of the Johnstown flood?
(a) 200th.
(b) 100th.
(c) 75th.
(d) 50th.

3. Which of the following immigrants were not mentioned to be watching the parade in Johnstown?
(a) French.
(b) Irish.
(c) German.
(d) Welsh.

4. What is the name of the newspaper in Johnstown?
(a) The Call.
(b) The Beagle.
(c) The Tribune.
(d) The Times.

5. In what year did the South Fork dam break for the first time?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1895.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Johnstown experience its first flood when a small dam breaks across Stony Creek?

2. How much did the workers at the iron company in Johnstown make for a week's work?

3. What is the name of the company whose financing led to much of Pittsburgh's industrial growth?

4. At what time does the dam simply move away in a push at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the resident engineer at the country club that owned the South Fork dam?

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