Blizzard! Chapter 4 This is All So Overwhelming Pages 41-56

1. What was Grand Central Depot like on Blizzard Monday?
a) silent as a grave
b) extremely busy
c) flocks of people were trying to get out of the city

2. Chauncey Depew paid laborers _________ for a 10 hour day to shovel snow off the railroad tracks during the blizzard.
a) $120.00
b) $12.00
c) $1.20

3. Depew begin getting complaints from wealthy businessmen about the train. One said the train must run because ____________.
a) his mother was ill
b) his wife was in labor
c) his children needed milk

4. The only transportation was wagons, coaches, and sleighs; however _______________________.
a) owners charged such a high fee that very few could afford to use them
b) they went very slowly and were almost of no use
c) many horses died as a result of the abuse

5. Beach wondered how different Blizzard Monday would have been if _________________.
a) trolley cars were running
b) his subway system were in operation
c) the streets had been laid out in a better design

6. Ferry Mary Heitman was seen _______________.
a) capsized after hitting another ferry
b) floating down the Hudson River
c) bouncing wildly toward the open ocean never to be seen again

7. Police ordered ________________.
a) the Brooklyn Bridge closed
b) the cable car that ran up the middle of Brooklyn Bridge closed
c) only foot traffic across Brooklyn Bridge

8. ____________ died in the snow just 30 feet from his home.
a) a couple in Tidewater, Virginia while feeding their 10 pigs and twenty chickens
b) a young teacher in southern Vermont while trying to get his students home
c) Sam Randall, a man going to milk his cows

9. Gurdon and Legrand died on the way to their Grandparents house because _______________.
a) Mr. and Mrs. Chapell were too sick to go and help them
b) their older brother could not carry both of them
c) no one knew they were out in the storm

10. One effect of the dropping temperatures was ____________________.
a) water pipes began bursting
b) 500 birds died in New York City
c) the sewer system stopped up



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