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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

3. The roof was blown off and the second floor of the building collapsed on what cafe, killing half the diners?
(a) Bob's Place.
(b) The Lone Star Lounge.
(c) The Cowboy Corral.
(d) Ritter's Cafe.

4. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?
(a) A Western Union station.
(b) The Giles Mercantile Agency.
(c) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(d) The Houston Post.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?

2. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

3. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?

4. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

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

(see the answer key)

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