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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?
(a) General Hazen.
(b) Chief Moore.
(c) Captain Simmons.
(d) Colonel Sterett.

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

3. How many passengers on the Beaumont, Texas, train died when the storm surged and derailed the train?
(a) 77.
(b) 62.
(c) 85.
(d) 105.

4. Where was Isaac Cline born?
(a) Gardinerville, Montana.
(b) Phoenix, Oregon.
(c) Mariposa, California.
(d) Madisonville, Tennessee.

5. At one point the water rushed in Dr. Young's second story window which was how many feet above the street?
(a) 24.
(b) 17.
(c) 33.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?

2. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

3. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?

4. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

5. The storm's track hit Galveston at a 90 degree angle with its eye passing how many miles west of the city?

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