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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: The Serpent's Coil.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. General Hazen is in charge of what?
(a) U.S. Weather Bureau.
(b) U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(c) U.S. Signal Corps.
(d) U.S. Army.

3. What could Isaac feel the night before the storm?
(a) The waves.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The wind.
(d) Dread.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The barometer reading Joseph takes the night before the storm is ____________.

2. How many storms are there in the hurricane season before Galveston?

3. According to Zebrowski, a hurricane can start with all these except one:

4. How many miles above sea level is the highest point of Galveston?

5. How many people does the last paragraph of "The Beach" say will die in the next twenty-four hours?

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