WorksheetsLesson 11: The Great Fire
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
What does the word ambled mean in the sentence below?
Since he had no plans for the afternoon, Malik just ambled down the street.
crawled
hurried
marched
strolled
What does the word ornately mean in the sentence below?
The ornately decorated mirror did not match the plain furniture of the room.
elaborately
perfectly
simply
terribly
What does the word hazards mean in the sentence below?
The loose rug and the extension cord in the hallway are safety hazards.
chances
dangers
signs
warnins
What does the word unrelenting mean in the sentence below?
On our hike, we were soaked to the skin by the unrelenting rain.
continuous
light
occasional
unusual
What does the word alleviate mean in the sentence below?
The city is building new trolley lines to alleviate its terrible traffic problems.
increase
lessen
replace
waste
burned
flared
intense
smolder
stifling
strong; powerful
flared
intense
proclaimed
smolder
declared; announced
flared
ambled
proclaimed
unrelenting
burn, smoke
flared
intense
smolder
stifling
very hot
stifling
flared
smolder
unrelenting
After he saw the first flames, Daniel Sullivan
ran into the barn and yelled "Fire!"
called Dennis Rogan to come help him.
yelled "Fire!" and tried to wake up the O'Learys.
yelled "Fire!" and then tried to free the O'Leary's animals.
Read the sentence from the article.
Flames from the burning hay pushed against the roof and beams, almost as if they were struggling to break free.
Which of the following is used in the sentence above?
alliteration
onamatopoeia
personification
proverb
How was the town's decision to build wooden sidewalks and pine-block streets several feet above the muddy earth a fire hazard?
The wooden sidewalks and streets often fell over.
The wooden sidewalks and streets often exploded.
The wooden sidewalks and streets were highly flammable.
The wooden sidewalks and streets were poorly built and difficult to walk on.
The author writes that the cries of "Fire!" would be a warning cry heard thousands of times during the next thirty-one hours. You can infer from this statement that the fire in the O'Leary's barn would
cause a much larger fire that would affect many people throughout the city.
burn out quickly and cause damage only to the O'Leary's property.
result in thousands of firefighters rushing to the O'Leary's barn.
cause a lot of smaller fires elsewhere on the property.
The author explains that most buildings in Chicago in 1871 were made of wood. How does this detail support the idea that Chicago was a city ready to burn?
Chicago grew quickly.
Bricks are fire-resistant.
Wood burns very easily.
Wood is a popular building material.
The statistics about fires in Chicago show that
firefighters were becoming better at their work.
the danger of fire did not stop the city's growth.
few Chicagoans had actually experienced fires.
fires were becoming an increasing danger to the city.
Why are the crowded conditions of Chicago's middle-class and poorer districts at the time important to understanding the Great Fire?
Fewer firehouses were built in those districts.
People were easily trapped in their houses in these areas.
Firefighting equipment could not get through the narrow streets.
Fire quickly spread from one house to the next in these densely populated sections.
The author describes the fire in another barn as flaring up into a thousand yellow-orange fingers. What two things are being compared in the description above?
flames and barn doors
colors and numbers
flames and fingers
hands and fingers
Which words in the sentence below show the sequence of events?
At about this time William Lee, who lived down the block from the O'Learys, went into his seventeen-month-old son's room to see why the child was crying.
"At about this time"
"who lived down the block"
"his seventeen-month-old son's room"
"why the child was crying"
What finally happened fifteen minutes after the fire started?
The O'Learys' barn collapsed.
The first fire alarm was turned in.
Bruno Gull's drugstore caught fire.
People came out of their homes with buckets of water.
