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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What church does the Mussante family see a raft slam into in Chapter 5?
(a) The Presbyterian Church.
(b) The Baptist Church.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) The Methodist Church.

2. What famous poet is asked to write something for the flood victims?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Walt Whitman.

3. What arrives midweek after the flood to break the jam at the stone bridge?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) Trucks.
(c) Bulldozers.
(d) Cranes.

4. What is the name of the man who helps save the girl who climbs in a cupboard in Chapter 5?
(a) Maxwell McAchren.
(b) Henry Phipps.
(c) Robert Pitcairn.
(d) Cyrus Elder.

5. How many of the 500-600 people in the bridge survive?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 55.
(d) 80.

6. What is the name of the area where the train stops at 4:05 p.m. at Sang Hollow in Chapter 6?
(a) Shortspot.
(b) Packsaddle.
(c) Dittburry.
(d) Hallowground.

7. What is described as by far the greatest horror witnessed by flood victims in Chapter 5?
(a) The fire at the bridge.
(b) The fire at the church.
(c) The flood in Mineral Point.
(d) The flood in Cresson.

8. From where do 20,000 hams arrive for flood victims?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

9. What is the title of Chapter 8?
(a) Time to reflect.
(b) No pen can describe.
(c) The calming shore.
(d) The journalists react.

10. Who conducts a church service on Sunday that initially attracts 30 people?
(a) D.W.C. Bidwell.
(b) James B. Scott.
(c) W. Horace Rose and Henry Phipps.
(d) H.L. Chapman and David Beale.

11. Which state's governor sends a shipment of tents and coffins to Johnstown?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

12. What church is the Rev. David Beale in charge of that is one of the places housing flood refugees?
(a) Sycamore St. Methodist Church.
(b) Sycamore St. Baptist Church.
(c) Main St. Presbyterian Church.
(d) Main St. Catholic Church.

13. At what time does a deep, steady rumble like an avalanche approach Johnstown in Chapter 5?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) 3:00 p.m.
(d) 4:07 p.m.

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

15. What is the name of the large Pittsburgh construction company that sends 1,000 employees to the flood relief?
(a) Booth and Flinn.
(b) Mellon and Finn.
(c) Carnegie and Mellon.
(d) Carnegie and Booth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sum does Unger summarize the losses at the club to be?

2. Who arrives in Sang Hollow at 10 p.m. on foot with his story to wire to New Florence regarding the flood?

3. Which of the following states had the International Red Cross NOT helped after natural disasters before Johnstown?

4. What is the name of the publication that calls the flood "the most extraordinary calamity of the age"?

5. How many children under ten-years-old die in the flood?

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