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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.
(a) Dallas.
(b) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(c) The Bolivar Lighthouse.
(d) To his office.

3. Isaac Cline was eventually assigned to head which weather station that encompassed Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle?
(a) Little Rock.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) Austin.

4. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 14.
(b) 147.
(c) 30.
(d) 65.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?

2. Dr. Young lost his house, but his family was safe in _______________.

3. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.

4. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?

5. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.

(see the answer key)

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