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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the 500-600 people in the bridge survive?
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 80.
(d) 40.

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 schoolhouse.
(b) The prison.
(c) The Methodist Church.
(d) The telegraph tower.

3. In what section of the train did a passenger have to jump over, crawl under, or run around in order to escape the flood in Chapter 4?
(a) The front car.
(b) The caboose.
(c) Section 2.
(d) Section 1.

4. What is described as by far the greatest horror witnessed by flood victims in Chapter 5?
(a) The flood in Cresson.
(b) The flood in Mineral Point.
(c) The fire at the church.
(d) The fire at the bridge.

5. What is the Rev. T.H. Robinson busy doing during the flood in Chapter 4?
(a) Taking a bath.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Writing in his diary.
(d) Writes a sermon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the telegraph operator who recalls a man running to her tower in Chapter 3?

2. How many years had the yardmaster, Walkinshaw, been working the day of the flood?

3. At what time do a carpenter and his wife stagger into town and report that there is hardly a building left standing in Johnstown?

4. Who arrives in Sang Hollow at 10 p.m. on foot with his story to wire to New Florence regarding the flood?

5. What church is the Rev. David Beale in charge of that is one of the places housing flood refugees?

(see the answer key)

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