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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The barometer reading Joseph takes the night before the storm is ____________.
(a) Under 28.
(b) Over 30.
(c) Falling.
(d) Rising.

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

4. How old is Isaac?
(a) 34.
(b) 38.
(c) 29.
(d) 42.

5. How many lives does Isaac say were saved because of his warnings?
(a) 200.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.

2. What does Louise Hopkins think the walls in house look like they doing?

3. What is the name of the steamship in the gulf on the day of the Hurricane?

4. Which direction is the water flowing through Galveston during the storm?

5. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?

(see the answer key)

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