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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who publishes an epic poem called "The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh" in Harper's Weekly?
(a) James B. Scott.
(b) Daniel Peyton.
(c) John Eliot Bowen.
(d) Frank Deckert.

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

4. 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 Booth.
(d) Carnegie and Mellon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of the 60 people survive when the Hubert House collapses?

3. What are the names of the prefabricated houses or hunt relics built for survivors?

4. Who is known as the "Paul Revere of the Flood"?

5. What famous poet is asked to write something for the flood victims?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the first arrivals of supply carts described?

2. How is Horace Rose's experience in the flood described near the end of Chapter 5?

3. What is the nature of the journalists' first reports of the flood?

4. How is the use of dynamite described in Chapter 8?

5. How are Clara Barton's relief efforts described?

6. How is Mr. Pitcairn described as he prepares to go to Johnstown to evaluate flood damage?

7. How is the work of the 200 photographers visiting Johnstown described?

8. What is the nature of Pitcairn's second message to Pittsburgh?

9. Describe what happens to Gertrude Quinn after she hides in a cupboard.

10. How are the events on Sunday, June 9th described?

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