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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. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) Cameroon.
(b) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(c) Hispaniola.
(d) Niger.

2. On September 4, 1900 what knocked out the city of Galveston's power and threw all the government buildings into darkness?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A dust storm.
(c) A tornado.
(d) An earthquake.

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) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 25.

4. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?
(a) Barometer.
(b) Clinometer.
(c) Heliograph.
(d) Thermograph.

5. After the storm, there were so many dead that the city resolved to do what with the corpses?
(a) Hire workers from out of state to bury them.
(b) Create a mass grave.
(c) Transport the bodies to Louisiana.
(d) Bury them at sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is estimated that wind gusts hit how many miles per hour during the hurricane in Galveston in 1900?

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

3. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

4. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

5. By what date does the author write that the streets of Galveston were cleaned, there were no pyres, the decomposition odor had lifted and new construction was everywhere?

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