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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer for the Dallas News took a train from Houston to Galveston?
(a) Chief Willis Moore.
(b) Captain J. W. Simmons.
(c) General William B. Hazen.
(d) Colonel William Sterett.

2. By evening, Judson Palmer estimated that the water in his yard was how deep?
(a) 4 feet.
(b) 2 feet.
(c) 7 feet.
(d) 11 feet.

3. Where was Dr. Sam Young's located?
(a) The West End.
(b) Smith and Vine.
(c) Bath and P ½..
(d) East 65th St.

4. When Isaac returned to work the week after the storm, the instruments in his office were still out, and he was forced to communicate by what means to the Houston station?
(a) Train.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Messanger pigeon.
(d) Boat.

5. Who was eight months pregnant and saw her house collapse on her husband and three-year-old son?
(a) Mrs. Thompson.
(b) Mrs. Englund.
(c) Mrs. Grimes.
(d) Mrs. Heideman.

6. By what date does the author write that the streets of Galveston were cleaned, there were no pyres, the decomposition odor had lifted and new construction was everywhere?
(a) September 5, 1902.
(b) March 20, 1903.
(c) January 19, 1904.
(d) December 31, 1900.

7. When Isaac finally reached home in Part III: Spectacle, his yard was already how deep in water?
(a) Neck deep.
(b) Chest deep.
(c) Two feet.
(d) Eight inches.

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

9. Isaac Cline's house capsized after being hit by what object?
(a) A boat.
(b) A train trestle.
(c) A barge.
(d) A locomotive.

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

11. Joseph attempted to phone to Washington, but the telephone operator wouldn't put him through because there were how many people ahead of him waiting to place calls?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 300.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 1,200.

12. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?
(a) The Houston Post.
(b) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(c) The Giles Mercantile Agency.
(d) A Western Union station.

13. In Part IV: Cataclysm, a telegram was sent from the weather station where to the Chief of the US Weather Bureau in Washington, DC, informing him that they had lost all contact with the Galveston office?
(a) Houston, Texas.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Miami, Florida.

14. There was great concern that ________ would have a mental breakdown after his wife's body was found.
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) Judson Palmer.
(d) Edmund Halley.

15. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?
(a) South.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Northwest.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a new employee at the Galveston weather station that found himself alone in the office?

2. In search for his wife, Isaac visited the hospital which withstood the storm and then on to a temporary morgue where how many bodies had been delivered?

3. It is estimated that wind gusts hit how many miles per hour during the hurricane in Galveston in 1900?

4. The building which housed the Galveston weather station was how many stories high?

5. How many passengers were on the train from Beaumont, Texas, traveling into Galveston during the storm?

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