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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men are eating at Ritter's Cafe and Saloon when the roof falls?
(a) 33.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

2. In what year did Galveston experience a big fire?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1893.

3. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?
(a) Body of a woman.
(b) An empty boat.
(c) A hoard of rats.
(d) Body of a child.

4. Whom does Isaac consider one of the great pioneers of meteorology?
(a) Daniel Defoe.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) Daniel Day Lewis.
(d) Willem Defoe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the storm reach on August 31?

2. Who writes parodies about the efforts of the weather service?

3. What immigrant group makes up one-third of the Galveston population in 1889?

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

5. Where do Isaac and his family go on Sundays?

(see the answer key)

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