Disaster management exam #2 - Quiz
questions well answered to pass graded
A+
fact about the triangle waist factory fire that occurred in 1911 - correct answer
✔✔safety measures were not put in place and led to more causalities and deaths
Noah from the Bible as the original emergency manager - correct answer
✔✔Noah prepared for the disaster and mitigated by gathering the animals and
building the ark itself. He then carried out his plan and dealt with response and
recovery by letting the animals go and recreating a population and community
Canton describes that up to the Black Death, many treatments were based on
biblical cures and traditional remedies. One example of this is that "the frequent
misdiagnosis of the plague as leprosy led to" what? - correct answer ✔✔the
biblically mandated 40-day quarantine which actually did help contain the spread
In the chapter, the author gives a specific Case Study on what is described as the
"first 'modern' disaster". Below, is a quote from the first paragraph of this case
study to help jog your memory. What city was this case study covering?
"At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of 1 November 1755, __________________, was
struck by an earthquake estimated to be close to 9.0 on the Richter scale that
lasted anywhere from three to six minutes" - correct answer ✔✔Lisbon, Portugal
Freedmen's Bereau purpose - correct answer ✔✔to control refugees and such in
the opposing states during the end of the civil war. the purpose of this was to
questions well answered to pass graded
A+
fact about the triangle waist factory fire that occurred in 1911 - correct answer
✔✔safety measures were not put in place and led to more causalities and deaths
Noah from the Bible as the original emergency manager - correct answer
✔✔Noah prepared for the disaster and mitigated by gathering the animals and
building the ark itself. He then carried out his plan and dealt with response and
recovery by letting the animals go and recreating a population and community
Canton describes that up to the Black Death, many treatments were based on
biblical cures and traditional remedies. One example of this is that "the frequent
misdiagnosis of the plague as leprosy led to" what? - correct answer ✔✔the
biblically mandated 40-day quarantine which actually did help contain the spread
In the chapter, the author gives a specific Case Study on what is described as the
"first 'modern' disaster". Below, is a quote from the first paragraph of this case
study to help jog your memory. What city was this case study covering?
"At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of 1 November 1755, __________________, was
struck by an earthquake estimated to be close to 9.0 on the Richter scale that
lasted anywhere from three to six minutes" - correct answer ✔✔Lisbon, Portugal
Freedmen's Bereau purpose - correct answer ✔✔to control refugees and such in
the opposing states during the end of the civil war. the purpose of this was to
