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

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

3. What town is Pitcairn the supreme commander of on the rail line?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Altoona.
(c) Cresson.
(d) Mineral Point.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Clara Barton end up leaving Johnstown?

2. What does Rev. Chapman see rolling past him at 4 p.m. in Chapter 5?

3. Where does the train roll slowly back to when it cannot reach Johnstown in Chapter 6?

4. What is the name of Pennsylvania's Adjutant General?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Henry S. Brown's journey to Johnstown described?

2. What reasons does the author suggest for Pitcairn joining the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club?

3. What is Pitcairn's reaction after seeing debris in the muddy water at Sang Hollow?

4. Describe the city's reasons for needing quick disinfection in Chapter 8.

5. What does William Tice witness near the end of Chapter 5?

6. What do the journalists from Pittsburgh do when they arrive in Bolivar?

7. How are the Hungarians depicted in Johnstown in Chapter 8?

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

9. What efforts does Daniel Hartman Hastings try and make?

10. What are the three destructive thrusts made by the wave as described in Chapter 5?

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