The Great Fire - Chapter 2 - Everything Went Wrong!

1. When William Lee reached Goll's drugstore _______.
a) the fire wagons were there putting out the fire
b) Goll's drugstore was already on fire
c) Bruno Goll would not give him the key to the alarm box
d) Bruno Goll was not there

2. The central alarm office in the Courthouse recorded __________.
a) no alarms from Goll
b) two alarms from Goll
c) one alarm from Goll

3. Mathias Schaffer, the fire watcher on the Courthouse tower, made the mistake of _________.
a) falling asleep on the job
b) not being in the tower during the time of the fire
c) thinking the new fire was part of the fire from the night before, therefore not reporting it right away

4. Schaffer's second mistake was _________.
a) not properly filling the fire wagons with water before sending them out to the fire
b) only sending out one fire wagon instead of the two that were at the fire house
c) not correctly hitching the horses to the fire wagon
d) sending the fire wagons to the wrong location

5. The fire started on the ____________ side of town.
a) rich
b) poor

6. Most of the citizens of Chicago were _________________ about the Courthouse bell's warning of the fire.
a) concerned
b) unconcerned

7. Why did the firemen NOT respond to Dorsey's alarm?
a) Firemen had already been sent.
b) Dorsey forgot to give the special signal.
c) There were no other firemen on duty.

8. The fire was so hot that ______.
a) McConners' axe melted
b) Anderson's leather hat twisted out of shape
c) Charley's boots stuck to the boardwalk

9. ______ caused the circle of fire wagon to be ineffective.
a) Two broken water hoses
b) Horses running away with the water wagons
c) Debris keeping the fire wagons from getting into position



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1. (c)
2. (a)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (b)
6. (b)
7. (b)
8. (b)
9. (a)