Titanic at 100

The title "Titanic at 100" means that Titanic

• was found about 100 feet below the surface of the water.

• sank in 1912, about 100 years before this film was made.

• carried exactly 100 passengers and members of the crew.

• weighed about 100 tons without cargo.

What question about Titanic is the team most interested in answering?

• Where are all the pieces of Titanic?

• Why didn't Titanic sink in one piece?

• Who designed the Titanic?

• Was Titanic a weak ship?

According to the film, which part of Titanic sank first?

• the bow

• the stern

• the port side

• the starboard side

Eyewitnesses saw the stern

• sink in a spiral motion.

• sink straight down without tilting.

• settle back and seem to float for a little while.

• smash apart before sinking.

The double bottom of the Titanic

• was never found.

• had a large hole in it from the iceberg.

• was found stretched out, as if the bow had hung down from it.

• did not break apart at all.

What makes the team think the stern sank in a spiral motion?

• There was smeared mud to the left and a lot of debris to the right of it.

• It was found completely intact and upright on the sea floor.

• The entire double bottom of the ship was still attached to it.

• The deckhouse was found buried underneath the stern.

The most significant evidence for the team was

• finding the middle section of Titanic in tiny pieces.

• finding the middle section of Titanic in huge chunks.

• finding the middle section of Titanic right next to the bow.

• not finding the middle section of Titanic at all.

The team concludes that Titanic

• sank because she was a weak ship.

• did not survive as long as she should have?

• sank because she was poorly designed.

• broke apart because of stresses that no ship could survive.

Which of these features does the film clip NOT include?

• voice-over narration

• footage from 1912 of the Titanic sinking in real life

• footage from movies about the Titanic

• interviews with members of the expedition

The shots of people on the ship and in lifeboats

• are from movies made about Titanic.

• add drama to the documentary.

• show some things that eyewitnesses reported seeing.

• all of these answers are correct