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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. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
(a) June, 1897.
(b) August, 1900.
(c) July, 1904.
(d) September, 1899.

2. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
(a) Niger.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Cameroon.

3. What rabbi was shocked to see all the people walking away from the beach and carrying personal items with them in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Henry Cohen.
(b) Matthew Lithburg.
(c) Matthew Cohen.
(d) Rodney Maher.

4. Despite Isaac's alarm, his office still downplayed the potential severity of the storm, referring to it by what name?
(a) An average rainstorm.
(b) A twenty-year storm.
(c) An offspur of the Florida storm.
(d) A moderate hail event.

5. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(b) Niger.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Hispaniola.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph attempted to phone to Washington, but the telephone operator wouldn't put him through because there were how many people ahead of him waiting to place calls?

2. When Isaac returned to work the week after the storm, the instruments in his office were still out, and he was forced to communicate by what means to the Houston station?

3. What did Isaac do with his wife's engagement ring after it was recovered from the wreckage?

4. After the storm, there were so many dead that the city resolved to do what with the corpses?

5. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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