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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. What refers to the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere?
(a) Mesosphere.
(b) Thermosphere.
(c) Troposphere.
(d) Stratosphere.

2. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Edmund Halley.
(d) Evangelista Torricelli.

3. The first floor of Dr. Young's house was in how many feet of water before it was hit by a large object?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. In Part IV: Cataclysm, a telegram was sent from the weather station where to the Chief of the US Weather Bureau in Washington, DC, informing him that they had lost all contact with the Galveston office?
(a) Houston, Texas.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) St. Louis, Missouri.

5. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what date does the author write that the streets of Galveston were cleaned, there were no pyres, the decomposition odor had lifted and new construction was everywhere?

3. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?

4. How many passengers were on the train from Beaumont, Texas, traveling into Galveston during the storm?

5. The fact that Isaac Cline paid cash for goods and services was published in a directory by what company?

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