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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What falls down about 3:15 p.m. on the day of the flood, which causes a great stir in the crowd?
(a) The prison.
(b) The schoolhouse.
(c) The Methodist Church.
(d) The telegraph tower.

3. Where were the trains trying to get into Johnstown held because of trouble in Lilly?
(a) East Conemaugh.
(b) Mineral Point.
(c) Stony Creek.
(d) Cresson.

4. What term did Johnstown residents use collectively for any immigrant willing to work cheap?
(a) Hokies.
(b) Jims.
(c) Oklahomas.
(d) Hunkies.

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

6. What is the name of the family who reports say were awakened and frightened by a "rumbling, roaring sound"?
(a) Bidwell.
(b) Quinn.
(c) Hastings.
(d) Heidenfelter.

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

8. How many inches of rain dropped at the country club the night before the flood?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

9. At what time does John G. Parke say he wakes up a second time to hear a "terrible roaring as of a cataract"?
(a) 7:00 p.m.
(b) 5:00 p.m.
(c) 6:30 a.m.
(d) 3:30 a.m.

10. Who is the first flood-related death ever in Johnstown?
(a) Chal Dick.
(b) Joseph Ross.
(c) Victor Heiser.
(d) Cyrus Elder.

11. What is the name of the country club that owned the dam that led to much of the Johnstown flood's damage?
(a) South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.
(b) Stony Creek Fishing Club.
(c) Johnstown Hunting and Fishing Club.
(d) Johnstown Hunting Club.

12. What is the South Fork Creek described as being the perfect one of in Chapter 3?
(a) Torrent.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) River.
(d) Flow.

13. What is the name of the brilliant English chemist who founded a contemporary process of producing steel?
(a) Henry Bessemer.
(b) Robert Pitcairn.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Frank Deckert.

14. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Sailboats on the mountain.
(b) The great flood.
(c) The man came from the lake.
(d) The South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club.

15. At what time does the dam simply move away in a push at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) 2:30 a.m.
(b) 5:00 p.m.
(c) 3:10 p.m.
(d) 1:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hettie Ogle see sweep past her and slam into a pier near the end of Chapter 3?

2. What is the name of the brakeman in Section 1 that looks out for himself rather than passengers during the flood?

3. At what age did the Pittsburgh clubmen's new president and manager begin working on the railroad?

4. At what time was there to be a parade in Johnstown that had to be canceled due to the weather?

5. What is the name of the cemetery that was found along the river which kept Civil War veterans?

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