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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the storm, Isaac Cline claimed to have saved over how many people, according to the author in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 32,000.
(d) 6,000.

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

3. 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) Miami, Florida.
(b) Houston, Texas.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

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

5. 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) Boat.
(b) Train.
(c) Messanger pigeon.
(d) Telegraph.

6. The first floor of Dr. Young's house was in how many feet of water before it was hit by a large object?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

7. 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) Southwest.
(b) North.
(c) Northwest.
(d) South.

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

9. The roof was blown off and the second floor of the building collapsed on what cafe, killing half the diners?
(a) The Lone Star Lounge.
(b) Bob's Place.
(c) The Cowboy Corral.
(d) Ritter's Cafe.

10. It was estimated that at the height of the storm, the barometric pressure fell to __________.
(a) 28.72.
(b) 29.44.
(c) 27.49.
(d) 30.19.

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

12. How many passengers were on the train from Beaumont, Texas, traveling into Galveston during the storm?
(a) 58.
(b) 95.
(c) 22.
(d) 6.

13. In the early evening, Dr. Young could only see one house in the area that was still standing. It belonged to whom?
(a) The Youens.
(b) The Clarks.
(c) The Robertsons.
(d) The Matthews.

14. It is estimated that wind gusts hit how many miles per hour during the hurricane in Galveston in 1900?
(a) 176..
(b) 185.
(c) 200.
(d) 162.

15. After the storm, Anthony Credo learned that he had lost a total of how many family members?
(a) 3.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What humanitarian arrived to help and sent a message that the situation had not been exaggerated?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. There was great concern that ________ would have a mental breakdown after his wife's body was found.

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