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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: Haunted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many passengers were on the train from Beaumont, Texas, traveling into Galveston during the storm?
(a) 95.
(b) 22.
(c) 58.
(d) 6.

2. The sequence that consisted of dry air, blue skies, and fair conditions changed to dominating high clouds and gray skies. Eventually, dark skies and a lower cloud ceiling were known as the _____________.
(a) August breeze.
(b) July dream.
(c) August wave.
(d) July rollercoaster.

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

4. Isaac Cline's house capsized after being hit by what object?
(a) A locomotive.
(b) A boat.
(c) A train trestle.
(d) A barge.

5. In what year did Isaac Cline die?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

2. August Rollfing hired a driver and buggy with orders to pick up his wife and children and take them to his mother's house where in Part IV: Cataclysm?

3. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?

4. What was the name of Louisa Rollfing's daughter?

5. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?

(see the answer key)

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