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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 concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Tailwind.
(b) Nonlinear dynamics.
(c) Headwind.
(d) Pushwind.

2. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.
(a) Hit the Rocky Mountains.
(b) Dissipate near Chicago.
(c) Head southwest.
(d) Travel up the Atlantic coast.

3. There was great concern that ________ would have a mental breakdown after his wife's body was found.
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Edmund Halley.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) Judson Palmer.

4. Isaac wrote an urgent cable to Willis Moore telling him of the terrible situation and gave the message to whom to deliver?
(a) Cora Cline.
(b) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Joseph Cline.

5. What sixteen-year-old was washed to the mainland and was given up for dead but reappeared a week later in Part V: Strange News?
(a) Anna Delz.
(b) Rebecca Nordstrom.
(c) Emily Anniston.
(d) Harriet Jacobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer for the Dallas News took a train from Houston to Galveston?

2. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.

3. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?

4. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

5. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?

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