The Great Fire - Chapter 4 - A Surging Ocean of Flame

1. Claire was lost from her family when ________________.
a) a stray horse got between Claire and her father
b) she was shoved and fell down
c) a man tried to steal her bundle

2. The people in Chicago were __________ in this chapter.
a) not worried
b) panicking
c) carefree

3. What caused the winds to blow so fiercely?
a) The fire was sucking up the oxygen.
b) A front blew in from the north.
c) Buildings falling created winds.

4. Chamberlin saw one disturbing sight. What was it?
a) men knocking down women and children to try to get their belongings to safety
b) an undertaker and a half a dozen boys carrying coffins
c) dead animals in the road

5. Alexander Frear and his sister-in-law were frantically looking for ______.
a) the chest of valuables
b) a cab to take them to safety
c) his brother
d) the three children

6. The north and west were cut off because ____________________.
a) James Hildreth was blowing up the buildings with the explosives he had found
b) all the bridges had burned
c) the firemen weren't allowing people passage

7. Just after Frear crossed the bridge ___________.
a) it caught fire
b) he found his sister-in-law and Mr. Wood
c) he fell into the river

8. The Tribune Building was "fireproof" except for ________.
a) the shutters
b) the doors
c) the roof

9. At 3:00 in the morning __________.
a) the Courthouse burned
b) the wind changed direction and the fire started moving eastward
c) the Waterworks burned down and the water supply to the city stopped

10. Claire _________________.
a) was trapped in an alley with fires on each side
b) found her family at Lake Michigan
c) saw a little girl with her hair on fire
d) got into Mr. White's wagon and was carried outside the city



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