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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dr. Sam Young's located?

2. At one point the water rushed in Dr. Young's second story window which was how many feet above the street?

3. Bodies continued to emerge from the wreckage at an average of how many per day?

4. Who insisted that the family evacuate Isaac Cline's house because it was too dangerous in Part III: Spectacle?

5. The storm's track hit Galveston at a 90 degree angle with its eye passing how many miles west of the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify, analyze and discuss the point of view of the narrative. In what tense and person is the story told? Whose perspective does the reader see the events through, primarily? Is the point of view omniscient or limited?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Rabbi Henry Cohen and the devastation of Ritter's Café in the narrative. How many individuals died in the collapse of Ritter's Café? What information does the author relate of these people? How did panic begin to spread in the city? What did the citizens do?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the predictions of Isaac Cline and Professor Andrew Jackson DeVoe of the 1900 hurricane. What is the significance of these predictions in terms of the book's narrative? Do they serve as symbols? How does intuition relate to Isaac and Joseph Cline?

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