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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Quinn.
(b) Hess.
(c) Deckert.
(d) Heiser.

2. In what year does Johnstown experience its first flood when a small dam breaks across Stony Creek?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1865.

3. How many inches of rain dropped at the country club the night before the flood?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

4. 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) Section 2.
(c) Section 1.
(d) The caboose.

5. What is the name of the person who laid out Conemaugh Old Town?
(a) Henry Phipps.
(b) Cyrus Elder.
(c) W. Horace Rose.
(d) Joseph Schantz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the chief counsel for the Iron Company in Johnstown?

2. How many crucial changes did Ruff's men find that Fulton failed to notice?

3. At what height did experts say the dam could not reach if the whole town didn't want to be threatened?

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

5. What is the name of the company whose financing led to much of Pittsburgh's industrial growth?

(see the answer key)

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