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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: the Serpent's Coil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?
(a) 225 mph.
(b) 165 mph.
(c) 80 mph.
(d) 100 mph.

2. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

3. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1906.

4. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) William Dampier.
(b) J. W. Simmons.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) William Redfield.

5. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) Seattle.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Denver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

2. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

3. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the Thursday morning weather map did not show temperatures for Key West. Instead, what letter was inserted?

5. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

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