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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the 60 people survive when the Hubert House collapses?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

2. In what cities outside Pennsylvania are stories run on the front page regarding the flood?
(a) Cincinnati and New York.
(b) Philadelphia and Chicago.
(c) Boston and Chicago.
(d) Boston and New York.

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

4. What is the name of the man who brings three carloads of supplies and 300 men to help the relief efforts?
(a) Victor Heiser.
(b) Capt. Bill Jones.
(c) Henry Clay Frick.
(d) Daniel Peyton.

5. How many people were killed in the "Great Strike" of 1877?
(a) 67.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 57.

6. In what month does Clara Barton end up leaving Johnstown?
(a) October.
(b) July,
(c) January.
(d) December,

7. How many miles from Johnstown are the journalists from Pittsburgh?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

8. What is the name of the club that develops as esprit de corps, as in wartime?
(a) The Broken Hearts Club.
(b) Society Club.
(c) The Survivor Club.
(d) Lime Kiln Club.

9. Who conducts a church service on Sunday that initially attracts 30 people?
(a) H.L. Chapman and David Beale.
(b) James B. Scott.
(c) W. Horace Rose and Henry Phipps.
(d) D.W.C. Bidwell.

10. How many minutes are described as desperate that drown and destroy the city when the wave hits?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

11. How many casualties are first estimated that are too high?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 2,000.

12. What is the name of the man who helps save the girl who climbs in a cupboard in Chapter 5?
(a) Cyrus Elder.
(b) Robert Pitcairn.
(c) Maxwell McAchren.
(d) Henry Phipps.

13. What church is the Rev. David Beale in charge of that is one of the places housing flood refugees?
(a) Main St. Presbyterian Church.
(b) Sycamore St. Methodist Church.
(c) Main St. Catholic Church.
(d) Sycamore St. Baptist Church.

14. What famous poet is asked to write something for the flood victims?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Ezra Pound.

15. At what time do newspapermen arrive across the Little Conemaugh in Chapter 7?
(a) 3:00 a.m.
(b) 7:00 a.m.
(c) 8:00 p.m.
(d) 2:00 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following states had the International Red Cross NOT helped after natural disasters before Johnstown?

2. What town is Pitcairn the supreme commander of on the rail line?

3. How many foreign nations donated money to flood relief efforts in Johnstown?

4. What is the name of the Chicago publisher who creates a popular color lithograph of the dam bursting?

5. What does Pitcairn say he fears among survivors, which prompts him to call for a public meeting to send supplies to survivors in Chapter 6?

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