WorksheetsAmerica is Under Attack by Don Brown
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What happened within 17 minutes of the North Tower plane crash?
Hazardous jet fuel leaked down to street level.
Technicians restarted an elevator to bring people down.
A thousand fire, police, and rescue workers arrived.
Helicopters began ferrying people off the roof.
What did firefighters scrambling into the South Tower discover?
A group of badly burned survivors helping each other down the stairwell.
A video security system that let them talk to people on the upper floors.
A working elevator that carried them up to the 40th floor.
An intact fire-control system that helped them slow the stairwell fire.
Why wasn't Ed Beyea able to escape down the stairwell?
He was paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
A beam had trapped him in his office.
A stairwell door had jammed.
He'd been burned while rescuing others.
A police officer said that a furious wind from the collapse of the South Tower had...
blown her out of her shoes and thrown her to the other side of the street.
lodged a steel girder a foot deep into the side of a brick building.
sent a city bus rolling down the street as if the bus were made out of cardboard.
shattered the windows in the precinct office more than a mile away.
Stanley Praimnath was the only person to...
work at the World Trade Center who had a relative on the hijacked plane.
survive at the heart of the plane's impact inside the South Tower.
photograph the second plane from inside the South Tower before it was struck.
escape the first impact only to run into the South Tower and escape again.
Chris Young was able to get out of an elevator in the North Tower when...
the collapse of the South Tower cut power to the elevator door locks.
he noticed an opening above him and climbed through the elevator's roof.
a group of firefighters heard him screaming and wedged the door open.
the cable snapped and the elevator fell 2 floors to the lobby.
How did Josephine Harris contribute to the survival of Captain Jonas's crew?
Her slow pace put them in the North Tower spot that didn't collapse.
Her urgent radio dispatches alerted them to the imminent collapse.
She was able to show them a little-known utility stairwell to escape.
She gave them oxygen canisters from a medical company in the tower.
After the North Tower crash, police captain Anthony Whitaker ordered...
The airspace over NYC to be sealed off to air traffic.
a command center to be set up in the lobby of the South Tower.
several civilians to help crews with the rescue operation.
a full evacuation of the World Trade Center buildings.
What did Joseph Pfiefer do when he saw the jet smash into the tower?
He ordered his fire crew into the rigs to go to the scene.
He helped evacuate a shopping mall next to the crash site.
He began filming the heroic deeds of people at the crash site.
He piloted his helicopter to the scene to provide reports to rescuers.
In 1993, the World Trade Center towers had survived...
a massive terrorist bombing.
the winds of an F3 tornado.
the impact of a Cessna plane.
a natural gas explosion.
