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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the girl who climbs in a cupboard to stay safe from the flood?
(a) Emily.
(b) Anne.
(c) Minnie.
(d) Gertrude.

3. Where do the first relief trains come from on the B&O tracks?
(a) Somerset.
(b) Cresson.
(c) Mineral Point.
(d) Bolivar.

4. Who heads the Pittsburgh Relief Committee after Moxham resigns?
(a) John Hess.
(b) James B. Scott.
(c) Daniel Hartman Hastings.
(d) John Fulton.

5. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Help!
(b) It's not over yet.
(c) Run for your lives!
(d) We need dry land.

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

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

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

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

10. Who arrives in Sang Hollow at 10 p.m. on foot with his story to wire to New Florence regarding the flood?
(a) Myron Quinn.
(b) W.N. Hays.
(c) Cyrus Elder.
(d) Charles Reade.

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

12. Where does Pitcairn order the reporters' train back to at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) New York.
(d) Baltimore.

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

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

15. What does Rev. Chapman see rolling past him at 4 p.m. in Chapter 5?
(a) A schoolhouse.
(b) A church.
(c) A boxcar.
(d) A prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Johnstown residents see catch fire around 8 p.m. the day of the flood?

2. Who is the person interviewed separately who tells of seeing water shooting out between rocks in the dam?

3. At what time do newspapermen arrive across the Little Conemaugh in Chapter 7?

4. How many refugees are trapped in the Swan house in Chapter 5?

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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