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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) George Washington.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

2. The building which housed the Galveston weather station was how many stories high?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

3. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Tobacco.

4. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?
(a) Lone Star Ridge.
(b) The Texas panhandle.
(c) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(d) The Amarillo causeway.

5. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Frank.
(b) Dean Williams.
(c) Dean Jones.
(d) Dean Bruner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

3. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?

4. Galveston was the victim of two storm surges, one from the Gulf and one from ____________.

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

(see the answer key)

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