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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are taken back and forth on the ferry?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 500.

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

3. What is the name of the vice president of Cambria Iron who says rebuilding will begin immediately?
(a) James McMillan.
(b) Henry Clay Frick.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Andrew Mellon.

4. How much money does the book say Cambria Iron had invested in Johnstown by the time the country club was organized?
(a) $10 million.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $20 million.
(d) $35 million.

5. How many people were killed in the "Great Strike" of 1877?
(a) 30.
(b) 67.
(c) 20.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrives midweek after the flood to break the jam at the stone bridge?

2. What train was the survivor on who wrote a long, florid account of his "race for life" with the "monster destruction"?

3. How many miles from Johnstown are the journalists from Pittsburgh?

4. Who is known as the "Paul Revere of the Flood"?

5. What is the death toll ratio given at the end of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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