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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. Col. William Sterett is a writer for which newspaper?
(a) Dallas News.
(b) New York Times.
(c) Austin-American Statesman.
(d) The Houstonian.

2. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?
(a) Tidal chart.
(b) Thermometer.
(c) Wind speed.
(d) Barometer.

3. Who writes parodies about the efforts of the weather service?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Jules Verne.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. What smell begins to dilute the smell of death in Galveston?
(a) Fresh-cut lumber.
(b) Funeral flowers.
(c) Fish.
(d) Oil rigs.

5. Who coined the word "cyclone" to describe hurricane damage?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) Col. William Read.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Isaac Cline.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many men are eating at Ritter's Cafe and Saloon when the roof falls?

3. Where do they find Cora Cline's body?

4. Who suggests that they evacuate the Cline house for higher ground?

5. In 1891, the weather service comes under the control of what organization?

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