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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) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

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

3. 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) Messanger pigeon.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Train.

4. 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) Clothes.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Dogs.

5. 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) 17.
(b) 25.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is estimated that wind gusts hit how many miles per hour during the hurricane in Galveston in 1900?

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

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

4. Who was the engineer of the Galveston-Houston train that became trapped in Part III: Spectacle?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What were Dr. Sam Young's experiences like as the storm began flooding Galveston?

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

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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