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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 people died in Mineral Point in Chapter 4?
(a) 16.
(b) 6.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

2. What is the name of the newspaper in Johnstown?
(a) The Times.
(b) The Call.
(c) The Beagle.
(d) The Tribune.

3. Where does the train roll slowly back to when it cannot reach Johnstown in Chapter 6?
(a) Mineral Point.
(b) Stony Bridge.
(c) Altoona.
(d) New Florence.

4. How many years had the yardmaster, Walkinshaw, been working the day of the flood?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 23 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 30 years.

5. How many miles downstream from its origins does Lake Conemaugh reform in Chapter 4?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 10 miles.
(c) 4 miles.
(d) 5.5 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers and porters on the Day Express died in the flood?

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

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 is the first human victim that the water claims in Chapter 4?

5. What massive landmark was the water's first major obstacle?

(see the answer key)

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