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Triangle Factory Fire – Questions/Answers
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Triangle Factory Fire – Questions/AnswersWhen did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire occur? ✔️Ans - March 25, 1911
Who owned the company ? ✔️Ans - Max Blanck and Isaac Harris
How many people died on this tragic event ? ✔️Ans - 146
What caused the fire? ✔️Ans - No one knows
What did the factory make? ✔️Ans - Womens blouses
Where did the fire occur? ✔️Ans - New York
According to the first article, which floor suffered the worst casualties?
✔️Ans - ninth
In "The Story of the Triangle Factory Fire," Fire Marshall William Beers
"stunned" New Yorkers by declaring..... ✔️Ans - That the building owners
should not be held accountable
The author says that confusion reigned. What caused confusion to reign?
✔️Ans - The workers had not had fire drills, so they didnt know what to do
why was the door locked on the ninth floor ? ✔️Ans - to discourage
latecomers and keep out union organizers
flames were sucked into the open windows above the eighth floor causing the
fire on the ninth floor to do what ? ✔️Ans - grow stronger
fire chief croker made an inspection of the building. what he was probably
doing to make his inspection ? ✔️Ans - he was examining the cite for
evidence of how the fire started.
what did chief croker take from the fire and was alive? ✔️Ans - a mouse
which of the following is not a chronological word from the stories? ✔️Ans
- to summarize
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