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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the passengers on the train from Beaumont, Texas, departed and headed to a lighthouse they saw in the distance when the train was trapped?
(a) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 4.
(d) 25.

2. Captain Simmons ordered his crew to head for the channel at the east end of _____________.
(a) The Rio Grande.
(b) The Texas panhandle.
(c) Galveston Island.
(d) Dallas.

3. It was estimated that at the height of the storm, the barometric pressure fell to __________.
(a) 27.49.
(b) 29.44.
(c) 30.19.
(d) 28.72.

4. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?
(a) General Hazen.
(b) Colonel Sterett.
(c) Chief Moore.
(d) Captain Simmons.

5. Isaac was bothered the most by Willis Moore's statement in the letter that Galveston had received warnings and that Isaac's office had ordered _______________.
(a) A full evacuation.
(b) Building walls of sandbags.
(c) Hurricane warning flags.
(d) No evacuation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

2. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?

3. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

4. The invention of the __________ was key to the development and effectiveness of the Weather Bureau allowing for the rapid transmission of weather forecasts from city to city.

5. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?

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