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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hettie Ogle see sweep past her and slam into a pier near the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A boat.
(b) A horse.
(c) A cow.
(d) A house.

2. Which of the following amenities does Johnstown not have in 1889?
(a) Grocery store.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Railroad station.
(d) Streetlights.

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

4. What is the death toll ratio given at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) One in five.
(b) One in six.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in three.

5. How many passengers and porters on the Day Express died in the flood?
(a) 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year did work stop on the building of the South Fork dam?

3. What is the name of the lake that was 15 miles upriver from Johnstown and was held back by the dam?

4. What is the name of the country club that owned the dam that led to much of the Johnstown flood's damage?

5. What is the name of the reverend who turns out with his neighbors just before the first flood break?

(see the answer key)

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