The Day the Dam Broke

Thurber’s grandfather was a little taller than:

• 5.5 feet

• 4.5 feet

• 5 feet

• 6 feet

James Thurber estimates that the reason people did not drive away in their cars instead of running on foot was:

• The cars took time to get started

• They had no cars

• The government had put a ban on driving

• The fuel in the tanks had frozen due to cold

1.      The rumour about the breaking of the dam began about noon of 12 March:  

• 1910

• 1913

• 1915

• 1923

The most heard cry of the running mob was: 

• 'Go West’ 

• ‘Go North’

• 'Go East’

•    ‘Go South’

This story is a good example of Thurber's sardonic but  affectionate view of human:

• behaviour

• madness

• error

• achievement

The name of a local river that flows into the Ohio is:

• The Mississippi River

• The Abita River

• The Chester River

• The Scioto River

James Groves Thurber was one of the foremost American:

• tragedians

• comedians

• novelists

• humorists

City engineers thought if the dam had broken, the water level would not have risen more

Than two additional inches in the:

• west side

• east side

• north side

•   south side

The west side was, at the time of the dam scare, under thirty feet of water during the spring floods of:

• 10 years

• 12 years

• 20 years

• 15 years

A man suddenly began to run as he wanted to meet his wife at the Restaurant named as:

• White hart

• Continental

• Maramor

• Ohio