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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. What does a strong wind topple over on New Year's Eve 1900?
(a) A brick from the leaning tower of Pisa.
(b) Captain Simmons' docked ship.
(c) A stone at Stonehenge.
(d) The light atop the Eiffel Tower.

2. Where did Isaac grow up?
(a) Texas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Arkansas.

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

4. By what time is the water covering the first three blocks from the beach on the day of the storm?
(a) 7:30 p.m.
(b) 2:30 p.m.
(c) 4:30 p.m.
(d) 11:30 a.m.

5. The author quotes the following newspapers as commending the U.S. Weather Bureau's forecasting during the hurricane, except one:
(a) Boston Herald.
(b) Buffalo Courier.
(c) Inter-Ocean.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac recognizes his wife's body from her _________.

2. What day do they find Cora Cline's body?

3. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?

4. Where do some of the occupants of the second train go to ride out the storm?

5. What weather phenomenon sets Isaac on the path to being a meteorologist?

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