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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 is the most influential magazine in the country in 1900?
(a) The Atlantic.
(b) Life.
(c) Collier's Weekly.
(d) Time.

2. What year is London hit with a devastating cyclone?
(a) 1703.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1807.

3. Who takes over the scandal-ridden weather service in 1887?
(a) Col. Johnson.
(b) Col. Dunwoody.
(c) Gen. Greely.
(d) Gen. Custer.

4. Whose birthday does eight-year-old Henry Cortes come to Galveston to celebrate the day of the storm?
(a) His sister's.
(b) His uncle's.
(c) His grandmother's.
(d) His aunt's.

5. Where do the American forecasters think the storm is headed?
(a) Atlantic coast.
(b) Out to sea.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Texas coastline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moore ban from Cuba?

2. Where did Isaac grow up?

3. How do the soldiers at Fort San Jacinto signal for help during the storm?

4. Monagan describes the first night they spend in Galveston bay as one of ______________.

5. Isaac believes in ___________.

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