Story on an Eyewitness by Jack London

How is "The Story of an Eyewitness" primarily organized?

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• descriptive

• sequence

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What event did the text describe?

• The Sacramento Fire of 1912

• The Houston Tornado of 1946

• The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

• The Atlanta Riot of 1906

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Who wrote "The Story of an Eyewitness"?

• Anne Frank

• Jack London

• Maya Angelou

• Ernest Hemingway

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According to the author, how did people react to the tragedy?

• They were "kind and courteous" to each other.

• People were stealing from the "trunk-pullers".

• People were looting businesses "in the intact part" of the city.

• They were rioting in the street on "this night of terror".

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Property was lost primarily due to which result of the earthquake?

• Buildings fell down due to the earth shaking.

• Water destroyed property because of flooding of the streets.

• Fires erupted after the earthquake and destroyed almost all of the city's buildings.

• Looters did so much damage that buildings had to be torn down.

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"Yesterday morning...I was worth six hundred thousand dollars. This morning this house is all I have left. It will go in fifteen minutes."

What message is the writer trying to communicate by using this quote?

• Natural disasters don't discriminate between wealthy and poor people.

• The fire in the city moved extremely quickly.

• Wealthy people like to brag about their successes.

• Homes were worth more in 1906 than they are today.

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Who does the writer credit with preventing hunger among the refugees?

• the police force

• the firefighters

• United States relief efforts

• the local churches

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All of the following were reasons that the fire department could not respond to the fires right away EXCEPT

• the telephone and telegraph systems were disrupted

• there was no organization or communication

• the fire department was destroyed in the earthquake

• the streets of San Francisco were piled high with the debris of fallen walls

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Jack London, the author, went to San Francisco because

• he lived in the heart of the city

• he was asked to write an account of what happened

• he wanted to mine for gold

• he was there to film videos of the wreckage

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Why does London use the subheading “The Doomed City” to describe San Francisco?

• The zombie apocalypse was imminent.

• There was a major change to the city in a short period of time through an earthquake and a fire.

• The fire was very small.

• It was the nickname he had for San Francisco after the gold rush failed.

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