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as for goll, he claimed later at the official inquiry into the fire that he had waited for lee to leave and then turned in the alarm. goll also insisted he turned in a second alarm when another man appeared ten minutes later to announce that the fire was spreading rapidly. whether goll lied about sending the alarms or whether the alarm box failed to work will never be known. what is clear, is that no alarm was recorded at the central alarm office in the courthouse at the point when the fire was still containable.

1.) how does the structure of this paragraph develop the theme that there were several missed opportunities to stop the fire? choose the best answer.

a.) by explaining the consequences goll faced for lying about sounding the alarm and alerting the courthouse
b.) by explaining how goll’s apparent refusal to sound the alarm delayed the firefighters
c.) by highlighting each of the mistakes, including goll’s, that were made during the course of the fire
d.) by highlighting the fact that goll did sound the alarm, but it never went off at the central office

several minutes passed before schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the black sky. the light was from a different fire after all; he'd been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly behind the still-flickering remnants of the saturday october 7 fire.

he studied the flames, trying to determine their exact location. this wasn't easy because of the distance and tall buildings between him and the flames. in addition, the moonless sky was made even murkier by the swirling, smoky haze. schaffer signaled down the speaking tube and had his assistant strike box 342. this sent engines rumbling through the streets — to a location almost a mile away from the o'learys' barn.

2.) what caused schaffer to instruct his assistant to strike box 342, accidentally sending firefighters to the wrong place?

a.) the leaping flames in the sky
b.) the dark, hazy night and the tall buildings
c.) the remnants of the previous fire
d.) the loud, rumbling engines

schaffer's first signal went out at 9: 30. several minutes later, schaffer realized his mistake and ordered box 319 struck. this was still seven blocks away from the o'learys', but close enough that firefighters could see the flames and alter their course. unfortunately, schaffer's young assistant, william j. brown, stubbornly refused to strike box 319, saying he was afraid it would confuse the situation.

3.) which statement best describes the effect of brown’s refusal to strike box 319?

a.) the engines went directly to de koven street.
b.) schaffer took it upon himself to send out the correct signal.
c.) the engines were sent to an incorrect location.
d.) schaffer found another way to redirect the engines.