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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 publication that calls the flood "the most extraordinary calamity of the age"?
(a) Life.
(b) Harper's Bazaar.
(c) Frank Leslies'.
(d) Time.

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

3. What do Johnstown residents see catch fire around 8 p.m. the day of the flood?
(a) The prison.
(b) The wooden bridge.
(c) The spire of St. John's church.
(d) Townhall.

4. Who paid out of pocket for supplies after becoming exhausted from four straight days of relief work?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) James B. Scott.
(c) Andrew Mellon.
(d) Capt. Bill Jones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many doctors and nurses did Clara Barton bring with her to help the relief efforts?

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

3. What is the name of the man who brings three carloads of supplies and 300 men to help the relief efforts?

4. How much money is raised in Pittsburgh the Saturday after the flood?

5. How many trains do reporters charter from Pittsburgh to Johnstown to report on the flood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the nature of the stories spread by the city lieutenant in regards to the Hungarian immigrants?

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

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

5. How is the identification of the dead bodies described in Chapter 7?

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

7. What is the nature of the stories about Daniel Peyton?

8. Describe the donations made to Johnstown from other cities.

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

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

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