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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 Cline's neighbor sent a telegram to whom, telling them to delay a trip into Galveston?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His wife.

2. What writer for the Dallas News took a train from Houston to Galveston?
(a) Colonel William Sterett.
(b) General William B. Hazen.
(c) Captain J. W. Simmons.
(d) Chief Willis Moore.

3. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?
(a) Lone Star Ridge.
(b) The Texas panhandle.
(c) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(d) The Amarillo causeway.

4. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Frank.
(b) Dean Williams.
(c) Dean Jones.
(d) Dean Bruner.

5. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Edmund Halley.
(c) John Blagden.
(d) Henry Howgate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac Cline's house was built with what components to prevent flooding?

2. After the storm, Isaac Cline claimed to have saved over how many people, according to the author in Part III: Spectacle?

3. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?

4. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.

5. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?

(see the answer key)

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