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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In August of what year did Columbus' ships sail on smooth waters under blue skies when an observer sounded the alarm after sighting huge swells just ahead, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) 1527.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1583.

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?
(a) March 20, 1903.
(b) December 31, 1900.
(c) January 19, 1904.
(d) September 5, 1902.

3. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1885.

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

5. Isaac Cline retired in what year?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. The building which housed the Galveston weather station was how many stories high?

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

3. Joseph Cline died how long after his brother?

4. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?

5. The deadly storm continued on resulting in death and damage as far away as what location?

(see the answer key)

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