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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the person interviewed separately who tells of seeing water shooting out between rocks in the dam?
(a) Cyrus Elder.
(b) Herbert Webber.
(c) Robert Pitcairn.
(d) Chal Dick.

2. What holiday were the townsfolk of Johnstown preparing for before the flood began?
(a) New Year's Day.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Halloween.
(d) Memorial Day.

3. What item, along with rude rafts, do the families of Johnstown pull in the streets during the storm?
(a) Boats.
(b) Spring wagons.
(c) Sleds.
(d) Chuck wagons.

4. What is the name of the publication that calls the flood "the most extraordinary calamity of the age"?
(a) Time.
(b) Harper's Bazaar.
(c) Life.
(d) Frank Leslies'.

5. What is the name of the man that founded the city of Cresson?
(a) Henry Clay Frick.
(b) Robert Pitcairn.
(c) Cyrus Elder.
(d) Dr. Robert Montgomery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How high is the backwash when the wave slams into the immovable hill on the far side of town?

2. What is the title of Chapter 2?

3. Which of the following is not one of the details mentioned regarding people's actions just after the flood?

4. What is the name of the two section train that came into Johnstown from Chicago?

5. How many people are taken back and forth on the ferry?

(see the answer key)

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