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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 Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the Thursday morning weather map did not show temperatures for Key West. Instead, what letter was inserted?
(a) "M."
(b) "R."
(c) "X."
(d) "D."

2. How many tornadoes did Hurricane Carla launch in Galveston?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

3. Although Willis Moore liked to refer to the storm as a freak of nature, another severe storm hit Galveston in what year?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1934.

4. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
(a) June, 1897.
(b) July, 1904.
(c) August, 1900.
(d) September, 1899.

5. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.
(a) Travel up the Atlantic coast.
(b) Head southwest.
(c) Dissipate near Chicago.
(d) Hit the Rocky Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

2. Despite Isaac's alarm, his office still downplayed the potential severity of the storm, referring to it by what name?

3. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

4. Who insisted that the family evacuate Isaac Cline's house because it was too dangerous in Part III: Spectacle?

5. The storm did not fully dissipate until it hit ______________.

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