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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did work stop on the building of the South Fork dam?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1789.

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

3. What landmark is mentioned as reaching to the heavens in Chapter 1 that can be seen in the Johnstown newspaper?
(a) The Eiffel Tower.
(b) Big Ben.
(c) Colisseum.
(d) Pont Neuf.

4. 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) Deckert.
(b) Quinn.
(c) Hess.
(d) Heiser.

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. How many of the 119 people riding debris downstream at 15 mph are saved in Chapter 6?

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?

3. What is the name of the family who lives in an opulent three-story, red brick house?

4. At what time does John G. Parke say he wakes up a second time to hear a "terrible roaring as of a cataract"?

5. What is the name of the woman who has a baby boy during the flood?

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