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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. Who was the engineer of the Galveston-Houston train that became trapped in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) A. V. Kellogg.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Edmund Halley.

2. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Headwind.
(c) Pushwind.
(d) Tailwind.

3. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?
(a) Friday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

4. Isaac Cline's house was built with what components to prevent flooding?
(a) Stilts.
(b) Pumps.
(c) Fans.
(d) Floats.

5. How many of the passengers on the train from Beaumont, Texas, departed and headed to a lighthouse they saw in the distance when the train was trapped?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 17.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dr. Sam Young's located?

2. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?

3. In Part III: Spectacle, Isaac Cline drove the beach from one end to the other shouting at people to do what?

4. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.

5. What was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

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