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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. For what will the summer of 1900 be remembered?
(a) Tornados.
(b) Hot weather.
(c) Natural disasters.
(d) Violence.

2. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?
(a) Wind speed.
(b) Thermometer.
(c) Tidal chart.
(d) Barometer.

3. The storm begins with the awakening of ___________.
(a) People.
(b) Molecules.
(c) Evil.
(d) Meteorologists.

4. Weather service stations are accused of doing all but one of the following:
(a) Gambling.
(b) Extreme filth.
(c) Taking nude photos.
(d) Robbing banks.

5. What does a strong wind topple over on New Year's Eve 1900?
(a) Captain Simmons' docked ship.
(b) The light atop the Eiffel Tower.
(c) A brick from the leaning tower of Pisa.
(d) A stone at Stonehenge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What building does Isaac see is still intact after the hurricane?

3. Where did Isaac grow up?

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

5. What is the thing that finally gets Galveston residents to take the storm seriously?

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