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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. Bodies continued to emerge from the wreckage at an average of how many per day?
(a) 35.
(b) 55.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

2. What was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?
(a) "The Louisiana."
(b) "The California."
(c) "The Colorado."
(d) "The Virginia."

3. Isaac Cline and which neighbor were on the beach at dawn on Saturday as the storm rolled in?
(a) Colonel William Sterett.
(b) Dr. Young.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) A. V. Kellogg.

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1906.

5. The roof was blown off and the second floor of the building collapsed on what cafe, killing half the diners?
(a) Ritter's Cafe.
(b) Bob's Place.
(c) The Lone Star Lounge.
(d) The Cowboy Corral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the building called which housed the Galveston weather station?

2. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?

3. Louise Hopkins was playing with which friend in the yard when they began to see debris and water rushing down the streets?

4. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?

5. Isaac wrote an urgent cable to Willis Moore telling him of the terrible situation and gave the message to whom to deliver?

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