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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the gentleman who leads people off the flooding second train?
(a) Poe.
(b) Poll.
(c) Peterson.
(d) Peabody.

2. Where do Isaac and his family go on Sundays?
(a) Synagogue.
(b) Catholic church.
(c) The movies.
(d) The bathhouses.

3. Who lives in Louise's boarding house?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Fishermen.
(d) Students.

4. Who wakes Isaac at 4 a.m. the morning of the hurricane?
(a) His brother.
(b) His oldest daughter.
(c) His wife.
(d) His youngest daughter.

5. The second train headed to Galveston the day of the storm is coming from where?
(a) Beaumont.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Houston.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Willis Moore?

3. What does the Weather Bureau forbid its stations from doing?

4. What aspects of the weather does Isaac record?

5. What is the name of Captain Halsey's ship?

(see the answer key)

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