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

2. What did Isaac do with his wife's engagement ring after it was recovered from the wreckage?
(a) Gave it to another woman.
(b) Tucked it away in a drawer.
(c) Sold it to a jeweler.
(d) Had it enlarged and wore it.

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

4. 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) 25.
(b) 17.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was eight months pregnant and saw her house collapse on her husband and three-year-old son?

3. There was great concern that ________ would have a mental breakdown after his wife's body was found.

4. What rabbi was shocked to see all the people walking away from the beach and carrying personal items with them in Part III: Spectacle?

5. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

(see the answer key)

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