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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. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.
(a) Dallas.
(b) The Bolivar Lighthouse.
(c) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(d) To his office.

2. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?
(a) The Boxer Rebellion.
(b) The Panda Movement.
(c) The Samurai Revolution.
(d) The Bamboo Storm.

3. 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) 17.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

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) Captain Simmons.
(b) General Hazen.
(c) Colonel Sterett.
(d) Chief Moore.

5. What were dispatched around town collecting bodies?
(a) "Corpse Wranglers."
(b) "Dead Gangs."
(c) "Cadaver Collectors."
(d) "Body Bandits."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?

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

3. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?

4. 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 _______________.

5. The roof was blown off and the second floor of the building collapsed on what cafe, killing half the diners?

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