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The steamboat Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865 near Memphis, Tennessee, resulting in the greatest maritime disaster in US history with an estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers killed. Most passengers were Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prison camps that the US had contracted the Sultana to transport home. The explosion was caused by a leaky and poorly repaired steam boiler on the ship.

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The steamboat Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865 near Memphis, Tennessee, resulting in the greatest maritime disaster in US history with an estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers killed. Most passengers were Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prison camps that the US had contracted the Sultana to transport home. The explosion was caused by a leaky and poorly repaired steam boiler on the ship.

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The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddle wheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27
April, 1865. This resulted in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated
1,800 of the 2,400 passengers were killed when one of the ship’s four boilers exploded, and the
Sultana sank not far from Memphis, Tennessee.

The reason that this disaster was mostly forgotten by history is because it took place soon after the
assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and during the closing weeks of the Civil War. Most of
the new passengers were Union soldiers, chiey from Ohio and just released from Confederate
prison camps such as Cahaba and Andersonville. The US government had contracted with the
Sultana to transport these former prisoners of war back to their homes.

The cause of the explosion was a leaky and poorly repaired steam boiler. The boiler (or “boilers”)
gave way when the steamer was about 7 to 9 miles north of Memphis at 2:00 A.M. in a terric
explosion that sent some of the passengers on deck into the water and destroyed a good portion of
the ship. Hot coals scattered by the explosion soon turned the remaining superstructure into an
inferno, the glare of which could be seen in Memphis.

Question 19 (1 point)

Why did the author write the text above?

a To expose people who were killed during the re.


b To retell about a greatest maritime disaster in the US history.

c To retell the great events that happened at the end of Civil War.

d To tell the cause of the Sultana’s explosion.


e To explain about the details on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 20 (1 point)

From the text, readers can get information that … .

a in the past boats were used to transfer prisoners


b around six hundred passengers survived the re
c high number of casualties was caused by hot coals
d the accident was one of the results of Civil War
e there are four boats exploded during the disaster
Question 21 (1 point)

How do paragraph one and three relate to each other?

a Paragraph one shows the cause of the explosion which was elaborated in third paragraph.
b How passenger avoided the re was explained in both rst and third paragraph of
the text.
c Both paragraphs give detailed information on when the explosion of the ship happens.
d First paragraph explains the disaster and the third one focuses on how big the re
is.

e Neither paragraph one nor paragraph three tells the number of casualties of the re.

Time left for this


assessment: 1
According to the text, the boat exploded when it … prisoners from Confederate prison camp.

a had delivered
b would deliver
c was delivering
d delivered
e has delivered

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