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

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

3. How many people took shelter in Judson Palmer's house in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 23.
(b) 34.
(c) 17.
(d) 8.

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

5. The storm's track hit Galveston at a 90 degree angle with its eye passing how many miles west of the city?
(a) 40.
(b) 65.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the building called which housed the Galveston weather station?

3. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?

4. 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?

5. When a train from Houston to Galveston became stalled, a team of men buried how many corpses found during the afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Isaac Cline find when he visited his office? How is this setting described?

2. Who was at fault for the inaccurate forecasting by the US Weather Bureau?

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

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

7. How does the author describe the plight of Captain Simmons as he fought the storm?

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

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

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

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