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

2. At what time do journalists going on foot or wagon reach New Florence in Chapter 6?
(a) 4:00 p.m.
(b) 3:00 a.m.
(c) 6:30 p.m.
(d) 5:15 a.m.

3. What is the name of the man of the Philadelphia Press who catches a train to Johnstown but gets no further than Harrisburg?
(a) Cyrus Elder.
(b) W. Horace Rose.
(c) John Fulton.
(d) Henry S. Brown.

4. Who was described as the relief effort's most resilient worker?
(a) Clara Barton.
(b) W. Horace Rose.
(c) John Hess.
(d) Daniel Peyton.

5. What sum does Unger summarize the losses at the club to be?
(a) $150,000.
(b) $45,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $100,000.

6. What kind of immigrants have lurid stories spread about them regarding thieving and shooting after the flood?
(a) French.
(b) Hungarians.
(c) Italians.
(d) Chinese.

7. What is the name of the Chicago publisher who creates a popular color lithograph of the dam bursting?
(a) Kurz & Allison.
(b) Smith & Wesson.
(c) Harp & Smitz.
(d) Hart & Lad.

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

9. How many refugees are trapped in the Swan house in Chapter 5?
(a) 264.
(b) 300.
(c) 176.
(d) 100.

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

11. What is the name of the young girl who nearly has her leg amputated by rescuers?
(a) Hettie Ogle.
(b) Gertrude Quinn.
(c) Rose Clark.
(d) Emma Ehrenfeld.

12. What is the name of Pennsylvania's Adjutant General?
(a) Daniel Harman Hastings.
(b) John G. Parke.
(c) Charles Reade.
(d) Frank Deckert.

13. How many people in Johnstown end up dying of typhoid?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

14. Who is the person interviewed separately who tells of seeing water shooting out between rocks in the dam?
(a) Chal Dick.
(b) Cyrus Elder.
(c) Robert Pitcairn.
(d) Herbert Webber.

15. Where does Pitcairn order the reporters' train back to at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) New York.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Cincinnati.
(d) Baltimore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who started stories while berserk over the loss of his wife and children?

2. How many miles from Johnstown are the journalists from Pittsburgh?

3. What is the name of the religious fanatics that come from Pittsburgh?

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

5. How many acres are estimated to have been covered from the wreckage of the bridge?

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