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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. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?
(a) 12.6.
(b) 4.2.
(c) 8.7.
(d) 17.9.

2. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1899.

3. In August of what year did Columbus' ships sail on smooth waters under blue skies when an observer sounded the alarm after sighting huge swells just ahead, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1527.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1583.

4. What was the name of Louisa Rollfing's husband?
(a) Glenn.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Forest.
(d) August.

5. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Willis Moore.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Bat Masterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city suffered from twelve consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or above, prior to the hurricane that hit Galveston?

2. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

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

4. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?

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?

(see the answer key)

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