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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1888, what weather disaster does the weather service fail to forecast?
(a) Denver heat wave.
(b) Miami hurricane.
(c) New York City blizzard.
(d) Los Angeles blizzard.

2. What is the heart of the weather service?
(a) Wind measurements.
(b) Forecasting.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) The anemometer.

3. What piece of debris in the prairies outside of Galveston is particularly disturbing to Col. Sterett?
(a) A dead horse.
(b) A ship.
(c) A destroyed house.
(d) A rocking horse.

4. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.
(a) Pacific.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Sahara.
(d) Gobi.

5. What building does Isaac see is still intact after the hurricane?
(a) Levy Building.
(b) Orphanage.
(c) His house.
(d) Ursuline convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Isaac consider one of the great pioneers of meteorology?

2. Whose birthday does eight-year-old Henry Cortes come to Galveston to celebrate the day of the storm?

3. What immigrant group makes up one-third of the Galveston population in 1889?

4. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?

5. What kind of vessel does Monagan commandeer to get to Galveston after the storm?

(see the answer key)

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