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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a train from Houston to Galveston became stalled, a team of men buried how many corpses found during the afternoon?
(a) 22.
(b) 58.
(c) 37.
(d) 9.

2. Isaac Cline and which neighbor were on the beach at dawn on Saturday as the storm rolled in?
(a) A. V. Kellogg.
(b) Colonel William Sterett.
(c) Dr. Young.
(d) Rabbi Henry Cohen.

3. The storm's track hit Galveston at a 90 degree angle with its eye passing how many miles west of the city?
(a) 15.
(b) 65.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

4. Who insisted on staying in Isaac Cline's house, believing it to be capable of withstanding the storm?
(a) Isaac Cline.
(b) Cora Cline.
(c) Joseph Cline.
(d) Laura Cline.

5. Bodies continued to emerge from the wreckage at an average of how many per day?
(a) 55.
(b) 35.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.

6. What rabbi was shocked to see all the people walking away from the beach and carrying personal items with them in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Matthew Lithburg.
(b) Rodney Maher.
(c) Henry Cohen.
(d) Matthew Cohen.

7. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?
(a) Heliograph.
(b) Barometer.
(c) Clinometer.
(d) Thermograph.

8. After the storm, there were so many dead that the city resolved to do what with the corpses?
(a) Bury them at sea.
(b) Create a mass grave.
(c) Hire workers from out of state to bury them.
(d) Transport the bodies to Louisiana.

9. August Rollfing hired a driver and buggy with orders to pick up his wife and children and take them to his mother's house where in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Austin.
(c) The West End.
(d) The North End.

10. Isaac was bothered the most by Willis Moore's statement in the letter that Galveston had received warnings and that Isaac's office had ordered _______________.
(a) Building walls of sandbags.
(b) A full evacuation.
(c) No evacuation.
(d) Hurricane warning flags.

11. Isaac visited the Levy Building and looked out over the vista where he could see that the spot that ____________ had once stood was now just all white beach.
(a) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(b) The Houston Post.
(c) The Bolivar Lighthouse.
(d) The Giles Mercantile Agency.

12. Who was a new employee at the Galveston weather station that found himself alone in the office?
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Captain J. W. Simmons.
(c) John Blagden.
(d) William B. Stockman.

13. 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) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

14. Isaac wrote an urgent cable to Willis Moore telling him of the terrible situation and gave the message to whom to deliver?
(a) William Redfield.
(b) Joseph Cline.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) Cora Cline.

15. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?
(a) Lone Star Ridge.
(b) The Texas panhandle.
(c) The Amarillo causeway.
(d) The Bolivar Peninsula.

Short Answer Questions

1. The passengers of the Beaumont, Texas, train who survived took refuge at what location?

2. The morning after the storm passed, the house where Isaac and his daughters had found shelter in was how far from his own house?

3. Who was eight months pregnant and saw her house collapse on her husband and three-year-old son?

4. How many people took shelter in Judson Palmer's house in Part IV: Cataclysm?

5. At one point the water rushed in Dr. Young's second story window which was how many feet above the street?

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