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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the family who lives in an opulent three-story, red brick house?
(a) Elder.
(b) Beale.
(c) Frick.
(d) Quinn.

2. 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) Chal Dick.
(d) Frank Deckert.

3. How many communities does the mud and debris go through before reaching Johnstown?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

4. Who rides back and forth on horseback trying to exhort the men to dig harder on fixing the dam in Chapter 3?
(a) John Fulton.
(b) Cyrus Elder.
(c) John G. Parke.
(d) John Hess.

5. How many trains do reporters charter from Pittsburgh to Johnstown to report on the flood?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?

2. Where does Pitcairn leave Pittsburgh for in a private upholstered car?

3. What is the name of the family who reports say were awakened and frightened by a "rumbling, roaring sound"?

4. What is the name of the telegraph operator who recalls a man running to her tower in Chapter 3?

5. What society does W. Horace Rose found in Johnstown?

(see the answer key)

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