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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 high is the backwash when the wave slams into the immovable hill on the far side of town?

2. What is used to disinfect the entire district in Chapter 8?

3. How many people in Johnstown end up dying of typhoid?

4. What do Johnstown residents see catch fire around 8 p.m. the day of the flood?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the author's use of tone in the book. In what way did the author insert his own perspective into the tone of the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the role of the Hungarians' portrayal in the book. What reason did the author have for including these depictions in the book? What is telling of the townsfolk's treatment of the Hungarians after the flood?

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