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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many trains do reporters charter from Pittsburgh to Johnstown to report on the flood?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

2. Where does Clara Barton set up headquarters for the Red Cross in Johnstown?
(a) A school.
(b) An abandoned railroad car.
(c) A mansion.
(d) A church.

3. What is the ratio of the dead bodies that cannot be identified?
(a) One in two.
(b) One in five.
(c) One in three.
(d) One in four.

4. On what do witnesses see a man and two women riding on just before dark in Chapter 6?
(a) A train.
(b) A barn roof.
(c) A boat.
(d) A house.

5. How many Pittsburgh newspapers send reporters to Johnstown to report on the flood?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

6. How many refugees are trapped in the Swan house in Chapter 5?
(a) 100.
(b) 176.
(c) 264.
(d) 300.

7. How many of the 60 people survive when the Hubert House collapses?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 9.

8. What is the name of the man who brings three carloads of supplies and 300 men to help the relief efforts?
(a) Victor Heiser.
(b) Capt. Bill Jones.
(c) Daniel Peyton.
(d) Henry Clay Frick.

9. What kind of immigrants have lurid stories spread about them regarding thieving and shooting after the flood?
(a) Chinese.
(b) French.
(c) Hungarians.
(d) Italians.

10. Who was described as the relief effort's most resilient worker?
(a) W. Horace Rose.
(b) Daniel Peyton.
(c) Clara Barton.
(d) John Hess.

11. In what month does Clara Barton end up leaving Johnstown?
(a) January.
(b) July,
(c) October.
(d) December,

12. What is the name of the town where reporters are held because water prevents them from reaching Johnstown?
(a) Cresson.
(b) Stony Creek.
(c) Bolivar.
(d) Mineral Point.

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

14. Which of the following is not one of the details mentioned regarding people's actions just after the flood?
(a) No organization.
(b) No class.
(c) No order.
(d) No sense.

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 is the name of the family who lives in an opulent three-story, red brick house?

2. Who publishes an epic poem called "The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh" in Harper's Weekly?

3. From where do 20,000 hams arrive for flood victims?

4. How many of the 119 people riding debris downstream at 15 mph are saved in Chapter 6?

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

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