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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. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?

2. Louise Hopkins was playing with which friend in the yard when they began to see debris and water rushing down the streets?

3. What rabbi was shocked to see all the people walking away from the beach and carrying personal items with them in Part III: Spectacle?

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

5. Isaac wrote an urgent cable to Willis Moore telling him of the terrible situation and gave the message to whom to deliver?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the author describe the events at Ritter's Cafe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Isaac's career after the US Signal Corps and prior to his arrival in Galveston. How long did Isaac work in Little Rock? Where did he transfer next? Also discuss the storm developments which took place in St. John. How did the atmospheric conditions in this location serve to strengthen the storm?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the meteorological discoveries of Thomas Jefferson, the Byzantine Empire, Aristotle and the Greeks, and Galileo. Of what importance were these men's discoveries to Isaac Cline? How had history developed a fascination for the weather in Isaac? In what ways did Isaac as a "scientist" relate to these historical figures?

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