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

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

3. Dr. Young lost his house, but his family was safe in _______________.
(a) Omaha, Nebraska.
(b) San Antonio, Texas.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) Pueblo, Colorado.

4. Isaac visited some merchants whom he told to raise their products how high off the floor because there could be some minor flooding?
(a) 10 inches.
(b) 1 foot.
(c) 5 feet.
(d) 3 feet.

5. Louise Hopkins was playing with which friend in the yard when they began to see debris and water rushing down the streets?
(a) Martha.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Wilma.
(d) Melissa.

Short Answer Questions

1. By evening, Judson Palmer estimated that the water in his yard was how deep?

2. What did Isaac see sitting on every available object when he reached home?

3. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?

4. After the storm, Isaac Cline claimed to have saved over how many people, according to the author in Part III: Spectacle?

5. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe Rabbi Cohen's experiences of the storm?

2. Describe the losses sustained by the Credo and Palmer families. How many were lost?

3. What did Isaac Cline note about the waves in the morning of September 8?

4. Where was August Rollfing headed in the beginning of Part IV: Cataclysm? Where was his family?

5. How did the passengers of the Galveston-Houston train escape?

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

7. Who was Colonel William Sterett? Why was he traveling to Galveston?

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

9. 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?

10. How does the author describe the arrival of the "Pensacola" in Galveston in Part V: Strange News?

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