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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the South Fork dam?
(a) The South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club.
(b) The city of Johnstown.
(c) The state of Pennsylvania.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

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

3. What is the name of the cemetery that was found along the river which kept Civil War veterans?
(a) Mineral Point Cemetery.
(b) Stony Creek Cemetery.
(c) Johnstown Cemetery.
(d) Sandy Vale Cemetery.

4. In what year did the South Fork dam break for the first time?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1895.

5. What is the amount of salary Bill Jones accepts from Andrew Carnegie in Chapter 2?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $25,000.

6. What is the name of the company whose financing led to much of Pittsburgh's industrial growth?
(a) Mellon & Sons.
(b) Carnegie & Partners.
(c) Quinn & Family.
(d) Hart LLC.

7. How many miles downstream from its origins does Lake Conemaugh reform in Chapter 4?
(a) 4 miles.
(b) 5.5 miles.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

8. Which of the following positive attributes is not given to Johnstown in regards to the quality of living there?
(a) Low taxes.
(b) Declining cost of living.
(c) No debt.
(d) High birth rate.

9. At what height did experts say the dam could not reach if the whole town didn't want to be threatened?
(a) 80 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 70 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

10. What was the last name of the first white settlers that came to Johnstown in 1771?
(a) Fulton.
(b) Smith.
(c) Jones.
(d) Adams.

11. What is the name of the ticket agent that is asked for his advice on whether to send a warning to Pitcairn at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) J.C. Walkinshaw.
(b) C.P. Dougherty.
(c) Chal Dick.
(d) Benjamin F. Ruff.

12. What birthday is the United States ready to celebrate the year of the Johnstown flood?
(a) 100th.
(b) 75th.
(c) 50th.
(d) 200th.

13. 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) $20 million.
(c) $50 million.
(d) $35 million.

14. What is the name of the reverend who turns out with his neighbors just before the first flood break?
(a) Robert Pitcairn.
(b) Chal Dick.
(c) Charles Reade.
(d) G.W. Brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what time was there to be a parade in Johnstown that had to be canceled due to the weather?

3. What is the name of the person who laid out Conemaugh Old Town?

4. What is the name of the resident engineer at the country club that owned the South Fork dam?

5. What term did Johnstown residents use collectively for any immigrant willing to work cheap?

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