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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did the Pittsburgh clubmen's new president and manager begin working on the railroad?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

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

3. What is the death toll ratio given at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) One in three.
(b) One in six.
(c) One in five.
(d) One in four.

4. What is the name of the telegraph operator in Mineral Point?
(a) W. Horace Rose.
(b) W.H. Pickerell.
(c) John Hess.
(d) Emma Ehrenfeld.

5. What is the name of the brakeman in Section 1 that looks out for himself rather than passengers during the flood?
(a) Charles Reade.
(b) John Fulton.
(c) Henry Phipps.
(d) Samuel S. Miller.

6. What sound is the only warning the people in East Conemaugh receive before the flood in Chapter 4?
(a) A foghorn.
(b) An open locomotive whistle.
(c) A scream.
(d) A bell.

7. What massive landmark was the water's first major obstacle?
(a) The Methodist Church.
(b) Town hall.
(c) A stone viaduct.
(d) The prison.

8. What term did Johnstown residents use collectively for any immigrant willing to work cheap?
(a) Hokies.
(b) Hunkies.
(c) Oklahomas.
(d) Jims.

9. Who is the first human victim that the water claims in Chapter 4?
(a) Chal Dick.
(b) John Hess.
(c) Cyrus Elder,
(d) Michael Mann.

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

11. What is the name of the family who are described as atypical in comparison with their neighbors in Johnstown?
(a) Elder.
(b) Heiser.
(c) Ehrenfeld.
(d) Bidwell.

12. In what year does Johnstown experience its first flood when a small dam breaks across Stony Creek?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1795.

13. Where were the trains trying to get into Johnstown held because of trouble in Lilly?
(a) Cresson.
(b) Mineral Point.
(c) Stony Creek.
(d) East Conemaugh.

14. What does Hettie Ogle see sweep past her and slam into a pier near the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A cow.
(b) A horse.
(c) A boat.
(d) A house.

15. How many years had the yardmaster, Walkinshaw, been working the day of the flood?
(a) 23 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 30 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the company whose financing led to much of Pittsburgh's industrial growth?

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

4. What date did the Johnstown flood begin?

5. What is the name of the engineer of the Chicago Limited?

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