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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The building which housed the Galveston weather station was how many stories high?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

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

3. What was the building called which housed the Galveston weather station?
(a) The Levy Building.
(b) The Murray Building.
(c) The Thomas Building.
(d) The Edwards Building.

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?
(a) Harriet Jacobs.
(b) Anna Delz.
(c) Rebecca Nordstrom.
(d) Emily Anniston.

5. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.
(a) Dissipate near Chicago.
(b) Hit the Rocky Mountains.
(c) Head southwest.
(d) Travel up the Atlantic coast.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did a train from Houston to Galveston become stalled?

3. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.

4. 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?

5. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lists appeared in the Galveston News following the storm? How are they described?

2. How is the setting of Judson Palmer's home described? Who took refuge there?

3. What did Isaac and Joseph Cline argue about as the storm hit?

4. What led to the entrapment of the Galveston-Houston train?

5. What "hideous things" does the author describe happening across Galveston in Part IV: Cataclysm?

6. What was the setting like when Colonel William Sterett's train became stalled? What did the passengers do?

7. What did the Weather Bureau refer to the storm as, despite Isaac's warnings in Part III: Spectacle? Who did Isaac go to warn locally?

8. How was the surge of flooding described in Part IV: Cataclysm? How much did the water rise and in what amount of time?

9. How does the author describe the experiences of John Blagden when the storm hit? Where was Blagden?

10. Where did Isaac and his family find themselves after the passing of the storm? How is the setting described?

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