1. What was a major consequence for a huge number of people living in San Francisco right after the 1906 disaster?
- A. Many were left without a place to live.
- B. The price of food became very cheap.
- C. New schools were built immediately.
- D. Everyone decided to move to the mountains.
2. How did city planners view the need to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 disaster?
- A. As an impossible task that would take too long.
- B. As a chance to create a better-designed city.
- C. As a reason to move the city's location inland.
- D. As a problem that only the federal government could solve.
3. What happened to thousands of San Francisco residents as a direct result of the 1906 earthquake and fires?
- A. They were given new jobs by the government.
- B. They were left without homes.
- C. They quickly moved to other states.
- D. They received money to repair their houses.
4. What was the main outcome for San Francisco after the city was devastated by the 1906 disaster?
- A. The city was permanently abandoned.
- B. Its people began a major project to rebuild it.
- C. It became a small town with few residents.
- D. The government decided to forbid tall buildings.
5. After the shaking from the 1906 earthquake stopped, what problem caused the most destruction in San Francisco?
- A. Flooding from broken dams
- B. Fires that spread because water lines were broken
- C. Landslides from the nearby hills
- D. Strong aftershocks that lasted for weeks
6. Which of the following statements about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is an opinion?
- A. Fires that started after the earthquake burned for several days.
- B. The shaking from the earthquake was the most terrifying event ever.
- C. Many buildings throughout the city were damaged or destroyed.
- D. Broken water lines made it difficult for firefighters to do their jobs.
7. A survivor of the 1906 earthquake wrote in a diary. Which of these sentences from the diary is a statement of fact?
- A. The day was the most horrible of my life.
- B. I feel that the city is completely gone.
- C. Our house on Pine Street burned down.
- D. I will never forget how scared I was.
8. If you wrote a school report about the 1906 earthquake using information from your textbook, what kind of source is your report?
- A. A primary source
- B. A government record
- C. A secondary source
- D. A personal diary
9. A historian is studying the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco. Which of these items is a primary source from that event?
- A. A documentary about California earthquakes made in 2015.
- B. A photograph of a damaged bridge taken on October 17, 1989.
- C. A history book chapter written by an expert last year.
- D. An online encyclopedia article about the San Andreas Fault.
10. Why would a historian studying the 1906 earthquake want to read a newspaper from April of that year?
- A. To learn what modern scientists believe.
- B. To see firsthand reports from that time.
- C. To study how to build safer buildings.
- D. To read a made-up story about the quake.