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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the family who lives in an opulent three-story, red brick house?
(a) Frick.
(b) Elder.
(c) Beale.
(d) Quinn.

4. Who entertains "Newspaper Row" by asking colleagues about restaurants?
(a) Frank Deckert.
(b) Henry Phipps.
(c) D.W.C. Bidwell.
(d) Richard Harding Davis.

5. What is the name of the man of the Philadelphia Press who catches a train to Johnstown but gets no further than Harrisburg?
(a) W. Horace Rose.
(b) John Fulton.
(c) Cyrus Elder.
(d) Henry S. Brown.

6. How many of the 119 people riding debris downstream at 15 mph are saved in Chapter 6?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

7. On what day does the sun shine for the first time since the flood?
(a) July 9.
(b) June 9.
(c) July 5.
(d) June 19.

8. How many casualties are first estimated that are too high?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 8,000.

9. How many miles from Johnstown are the journalists from Pittsburgh?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

10. How many people in Johnstown end up dying of typhoid?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 35.
(d) 50.

11. What is used to disinfect the entire district in Chapter 8?
(a) Quicklime.
(b) Bleach.
(c) Lye.
(d) Antibacterial soap.

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

13. How many minutes are described as desperate that drown and destroy the city when the wave hits?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

14. What sum does Unger summarize the losses at the club to be?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $45,000.

15. What train was the survivor on who wrote a long, florid account of his "race for life" with the "monster destruction"?
(a) The Flash.
(b) Day Express.
(c) The Limited.
(d) The Daydream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day does the first case of typhoid come on?

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

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

4. In what year does Pitcairn's first interest in the dam come after it wrecks railroad property?

5. What does Pitcairn say he fears among survivors, which prompts him to call for a public meeting to send supplies to survivors in Chapter 6?

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