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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Pittsburgh clubmen's president and manager in Chapter 3?
(a) Charles Reade.
(b) Col. Elias J. Unger.
(c) Henry Clay Frick.
(d) Frank Deckert.

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

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

5. At what time does John G. Parke say he wakes up a second time to hear a "terrible roaring as of a cataract"?
(a) 7:00 p.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 5:00 p.m.
(d) 3:30 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following amenities does Johnstown not have in 1889?

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

3. Who rides back and forth on horseback trying to exhort the men to dig harder on fixing the dam in Chapter 3?

4. What is the title of Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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