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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the resident engineer at the country club that owned the South Fork dam?
(a) Charles Reade.
(b) John G. Parke.
(c) Frank Deckert.
(d) Chal Dick.

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

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

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

5. Who was willing to help foot the bill for an outlet pipe system to increase the safety of the dam?
(a) The mayor of Johnstown.
(b) Cambria Iron.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) The state of Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the engineer who sits in the cab of train No. 2 at Buttermilk Falls in Chapter 4?

2. Which of the following positive attributes is not given to Johnstown in regards to the quality of living there?

3. How much money does the book say Cambria Iron had invested in Johnstown by the time the country club was organized?

4. What are the names of the bodies of water that flowed through Johnstown?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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