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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 17.

3. 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) No evacuation.
(c) Hurricane warning flags.
(d) A full evacuation.

4. The wind was measured at what speed from the Galveston weather station in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 95 mph.
(b) 135 mph.
(c) 110 mph.
(d) 160 mph.

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) 33.
(c) 17.
(d) 28.

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

7. 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) Austin.
(b) The North End.
(c) The West End.
(d) Dallas.

8. 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) Matthew Cohen.
(c) Henry Cohen.
(d) Rodney Maher.

9. 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) January 19, 1904.
(b) December 31, 1900.
(c) March 20, 1903.
(d) September 5, 1902.

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

11. Dr. Young watched from the second floor of his house with fascination as the water rushed down the streets not knowing that ____________ were floating in it.
(a) Dogs.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Corpses.

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

13. What daughter of Ruby Credo's was severely injured when a piece of wood was driven through her arm?
(a) Polly.
(b) Pamela.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Paula.

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

15. What were dispatched around town collecting bodies?
(a) "Cadaver Collectors."
(b) "Dead Gangs."
(c) "Body Bandits."
(d) "Corpse Wranglers."

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac Cline's house was built with what components to prevent flooding?

2. What sixteen-year-old was washed to the mainland and was given up for dead but reappeared a week later in Part V: Strange News?

3. Where was the letter that Willis Moore wrote defending the forecasting conducted by the Weather Bureau published?

4. The roof was blown off and the second floor of the building collapsed on what cafe, killing half the diners?

5. For how many hours did Dr. Young stay on his raft until he was rescued in Part IV: Cataclysm?

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