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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who paid out of pocket for supplies after becoming exhausted from four straight days of relief work?
(a) James B. Scott.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) Capt. Bill Jones.
(d) Andrew Mellon.

2. What is the name of the Methodist minister who lives two doors off Main Street?
(a) Rev. H.L. Chapman.
(b) Rev. John Fulton.
(c) Rev. David Beale.
(d) Rev. Chal Dick.

3. What is the name of the large Pittsburgh construction company that sends 1,000 employees to the flood relief?
(a) Carnegie and Booth.
(b) Carnegie and Mellon.
(c) Booth and Flinn.
(d) Mellon and Finn.

4. What is the name of the cemetery that was found along the river which kept Civil War veterans?
(a) Stony Creek Cemetery.
(b) Mineral Point Cemetery.
(c) Sandy Vale Cemetery.
(d) Johnstown Cemetery.

5. What train was the survivor on who wrote a long, florid account of his "race for life" with the "monster destruction"?
(a) The Limited.
(b) The Flash.
(c) The Daydream.
(d) Day Express.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the bodies of water that flowed through Johnstown?

2. What does the book say the embankment on the river was built up of?

3. How many of the 119 people riding debris downstream at 15 mph are saved in Chapter 6?

4. How much money is raised in Pittsburgh the Saturday after the flood?

5. What is the name of the engineer who sits in the cab of train No. 2 at Buttermilk Falls in Chapter 4?

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