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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: the Serpent's Coil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1892.

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

3. What was the maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?
(a) Cora Betsy Huffington.
(b) Cora May Ballew.
(c) Cora Sue Smith.
(d) Cora Rebecca Rodgers.

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

5. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?
(a) July 4, 1899.
(b) June 18, 1901.
(c) September 20, 1902.
(d) August 27, 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

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

3. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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