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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are taken back and forth on the ferry?

2. Where do the first relief trains come from on the B&O tracks?

3. How many of the 500-600 people in the bridge survive?

4. What is the name of the man of the Philadelphia Press who catches a train to Johnstown but gets no further than Harrisburg?

5. What is the title of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Kurz and Allison's lithograph described?

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

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

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

10. What happens to a man and two women seen riding a barn roof in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the steel industry in the book. What impact did they have on the progress of Johnstown? What connection did it have to the flood?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of the telegraph operators in the crisis. Did all of these operators work together or did some act alone? What impact could they have had in preventing the number of flood related deaths?

Essay Topic 3

Examine John Fulton's report on the dam in Chapter 2. What is the nature of this report? What might have been prevented in terms of the flood had this report been taken more seriously?

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