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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ticket agent that is asked for his advice on whether to send a warning to Pitcairn at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) C.P. Dougherty.
(b) Benjamin F. Ruff.
(c) J.C. Walkinshaw.
(d) Chal Dick.

2. What was the last name of the first white settlers that came to Johnstown in 1771?
(a) Smith.
(b) Adams.
(c) Fulton.
(d) Jones.

3. Who owns the South Fork dam?
(a) The South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) The state of Pennsylvania.
(d) The city of Johnstown.

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

5. What society does W. Horace Rose found in Johnstown?
(a) The Opera Society.
(b) The Honor Society.
(c) The Steel Society.
(d) The Literary Society.

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

7. What is the name of the place best known for many sporting houses?
(a) Quinn's.
(b) Bert's Pub.
(c) Reade's.
(d) Lizzie Thompson's.

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

9. What do W. Horace Rose and Charles Zimmerman joke about just before the flood starts?
(a) Horses roaming the stores.
(b) Boats floating in the street.
(c) The cows drinking water on Main Street.
(d) A break from work.

10. What is the name of the two section train that came into Johnstown from Chicago?
(a) The Express.
(b) Day Express.
(c) Night Owl.
(d) Limited.

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

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

13. What is the name of the telegraph operator who recalls a man running to her tower in Chapter 3?
(a) Daniel Peyton.
(b) Gertrude Quinn.
(c) Emma Ehrenfeld.
(d) John Hess.

14. How many crucial changes did Ruff's men find that Fulton failed to notice?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

15. What is the name of the telegraph operator in Mineral Point?
(a) John Hess.
(b) W. Horace Rose.
(c) W.H. Pickerell.
(d) Emma Ehrenfeld.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the manager that is described as the most powerful man in Johnstown?

3. What is the name of the bridge that South Fork Creek winds toward?

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 does the book say the embankment on the river was built up of?

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