Titanic Chapters 4-6 Quiz

What does the title of Chapter 4, "Iceberg Right Ahead," tell the reader?

• The title lets the reader know that this is the chapter where we disaster strike the ship.

• The chapter title makes people thirsty for ice-cold drinks.

• The title tell the reader that the Titanic turned right when it collided with the iceberg.

• The title "Iceberg Left Ahead" sounded strange.

Why didn't the Titanic receive the warning about the ice ahead?

• Even though a message was sent, it was not marked with the letters which would give it priority status and result in it being delivered directly to the captain.

• The telegraph apparatus was broken

• Phillips and Bride the telegraph operators were exhausted and had already gone to bed, leaving the telegraph room completely empty.

• The other ships in the area were jealous of how magnificent the Titanic was so decided to not warn about the icebergs out of jealousy.

On page 68, there is a quote from Walter Lord, the author of A Night to Remember. What does he say about what lead up to the the Titanic crashing into the iceberg?

• Walter Lord says that complacency, arrogant casualness, not looking at all of the warnings as a whole, and ignoring ice warnings led to the Titanic crash.

• Walter Lord says that the ship was built incorrectly so that is the reason it sank.

• Walter Lord says that the iceberg was inhumanly large so there was no possible way that the Titanic could have avoided the crash.

• Walter Lord says that Captain E.J. Smith was overconfident and his need for speed caused the Titanic to crash into the iceberg.

What was a difficult decision First Officer William Murdoch had to make?

• what was the least dangerous place to hit the iceberg...he end up thrung the ship so the side hits the iceberg

• whether Captain Smith should be notified of the iceberg

• whether to believe that Frederick Fleet had really spotted an iceberg

• Whether the engines required more steam so the ship could travel faster

Based on context clues and the photograph on page 72, what seems to be the best description of a chronometer

• An instrument designed for measuring time, especially one designed to keep accurate time in spite of motion or variations of temperature

• a meter that measures how cold an iceberg is

• a digital clock

• the prototype to an Apple watch

How are people's accounts of the boat crashing different?

• Some passengers heard it. Some passengers felt it. Some didn't see or feel or hear anything. It seems partly based on their location on the ship.

• Some people were on board a different boat, the Olympic.

• The people said the iceberg was different colors based on where they saw it.

• They each had a different reason for blaming the Captain for the iceberg crash.

What is a possible reason that people's accounts of the iceberg collision differ?

• The iceberg hit the lower parts of the ship where they aren't any passenger cabins, so it's likely that some people were far away from the site of the impact.

• The first class passengers were interviewed by the newspaper first.

• People were rushing to have the first podcast of the collusion produced.

• Their accounts actually did not differ and ended up being pretty much the same.

Why did people keep doubting that something could actually be wrong with the Titanic?

• The Titanic was said to be unsinkable, so massive it couldn't be taken down, so passengers weren't worried about anything serious.

• People did not think anything could be wrong with the Titanic because the ship's hull contained a force field that repelled icebergs.

• No ship in the history of the world had ever sank before

• Icebergs are too soft to actually cause any damage to a ship

Why does it seem so puzzling to everyone that the Titanic had hit something?

• The ocean and sky were so calm and clear that it was baffling as to why the lookouts couldn't see anything coming up ahead.

• The Titanic had a state of the art GPS system to navigate by

• The iceberg was completely invisible to everyone

• The passengers were eating dinner and not a single crumb of food rolled off their plates.

What was the horrible realization that the captain came to when he realized that the Titanic was going to sink?

• The expensive ship was going to sink and be a total loss and there weren't enough lifeboats for all the passengers.

• He realized that he left his coat at home, and it was a chilly night.

• The lifeboats were locked and nobody knew where the key was located.

• He realized that icebergs were much more dangerous than anyone had realized before.