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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 did Isaac see sitting on every available object when he reached home?
(a) Frogs.
(b) Marmots.
(c) Bees.
(d) Birds.

2. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) Matthew Fontaine Maury.

3. It was estimated that at the height of the storm, the barometric pressure fell to __________.
(a) 29.44.
(b) 27.49.
(c) 30.19.
(d) 28.72.

4. 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?
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Joe Amando.

5. After the storm, Isaac Cline claimed to have saved over how many people, according to the author in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 32,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers on the Beaumont, Texas, train died when the storm surged and derailed the train?

2. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

3. Which of Louise Hopkins's siblings made it home last, with water up to his underarms?

4. How far from Galveston was the hurricane when Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th?

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

(see the answer key)

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