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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Willis Moore pressured Isaac Cline to help him lobby for what position under President Wilson?
(a) Secretary of Commerce.
(b) Secretary of Finance.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Secretary of Agriculture.

2. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?
(a) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

3. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Joe Amando.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Bat Masterson.

4. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Joe Amando.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Ernest Zebrowski.

5. Who insisted that the family evacuate Isaac Cline's house because it was too dangerous in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Isaac Cline.
(b) Joseph Cline.
(c) Laura Cline.
(d) Cora Cline.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

3. After the storm, Galveston was overshadowed by Houston which was becoming a boom town after the discovery of _____________.

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

5. Although Willis Moore liked to refer to the storm as a freak of nature, another severe storm hit Galveston in what year?

(see the answer key)

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