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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 cousin.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His wife.

2. When Isaac finally reached home in Part III: Spectacle, his yard was already how deep in water?
(a) Eight inches.
(b) Chest deep.
(c) Neck deep.
(d) Two feet.

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

4. Isaac Cline and which neighbor were on the beach at dawn on Saturday as the storm rolled in?
(a) Colonel William Sterett.
(b) A. V. Kellogg.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) Dr. Young.

5. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 14.
(b) 65.
(c) 30.
(d) 147.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.

3. The morning after the storm passed, the house where Isaac and his daughters had found shelter in was how far from his own house?

4. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

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

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