The Great Fire - Chapter 4 - A Surging Ocean of Flame
Quiz
Claire was lost from her family when ________________.
- a stray horse got between Claire and her father
- she was shoved and fell down
- a man tried to steal her bundle
The people in Chicago were __________ in this chapter.
- not worried
- panicking
- carefree
What caused the winds to blow so fiercely?
- The fire was sucking up the oxygen.
- A front blew in from the north.
- Buildings falling created winds.
Chamberlin saw one disturbing sight. What was it?
- men knocking down women and children to try to get their belongings to safety
- an undertaker and a half a dozen boys carrying coffins
- dead animals in the road
Alexander Frear and his sister-in-law were frantically looking for ______.
- the chest of valuables
- a cab to take them to safety
- his brother
- the three children
The north and west were cut off because ____________________.
- James Hildreth was blowing up the buildings with the explosives he had found
- all the bridges had burned
- the firemen weren't allowing people passage
Just after Frear crossed the bridge ___________.
- it caught fire
- he found his sister-in-law and Mr. Wood
- he fell into the river
The Tribune Building was "fireproof" except for ________.
- the shutters
- the doors
- the roof
At 3:00 in the morning __________.
- the Courthouse burned
- the wind changed direction and the fire started moving eastward
- the Waterworks burned down and the water supply to the city stopped
Claire _________________.
- was trapped in an alley with fires on each side
- found her family at Lake Michigan
- saw a little girl with her hair on fire
- got into Mr. White's wagon and was carried outside the city