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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 young girl who nearly has her leg amputated by rescuers?
(a) Gertrude Quinn.
(b) Emma Ehrenfeld.
(c) Rose Clark.
(d) Hettie Ogle.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?

2. What is the title of Chapter 6?

3. What sum does Unger summarize the losses at the club to be?

4. What town is Pitcairn the supreme commander of on the rail line?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Victor Heiser described when the wave reaches his family's property?

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

3. What are some of the efforts made by the townsfolk in regards to helping the flood survivors in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

7. How is the Quinn family described in Chapter 5?

8. How is Johnstown described at the beginning of Chapter 7?

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

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

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