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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. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?
(a) Telegraph.
(b) Carrier pigeon.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Currier.

2. Who suggests that they evacuate the Cline house for higher ground?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Dr. Young.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Cora.

3. Where does Isaac meet his wife?
(a) College.
(b) Work.
(c) Train.
(d) Church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What college does Isaac attend?

2. In 1888, what weather disaster does the weather service fail to forecast?

3. What are the first casualties of the storm that the train from Houston encounters after the storm?

4. In what city does the temperature hit 100.6 on August 11, 1900?

5. What piece of debris in the prairies outside of Galveston is particularly disturbing to Col. Sterett?

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