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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what price does John Reilly buy the area surrounding the dam?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $2,000.

2. What are the names of the bodies of water that flowed through Johnstown?
(a) Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek.
(b) Stony Creek and Sandy Vale.
(c) Mineral Point and Little Conemaugh.
(d) Little Conemaugh and Sandy Vale.

3. At what height did experts say the dam could not reach if the whole town didn't want to be threatened?
(a) 80 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 60 feet.
(d) 70 feet.

4. How much money does the book say Cambria Iron had invested in Johnstown by the time the country club was organized?
(a) $50 million.
(b) $35 million.
(c) $10 million.
(d) $20 million.

5. How many people live in South Fork, according to Chapter 2?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the resident engineer at the country club that owned the South Fork dam?

2. What date did the Johnstown flood begin?

3. What is the last name of the family who owns the store in Johnstown where rumors of a disaster become a joke just before the flood?

4. What is the name of the brilliant English chemist who founded a contemporary process of producing steel?

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

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