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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. What is the most influential magazine in the country in 1900?
(a) The Atlantic.
(b) Time.
(c) Life.
(d) Collier's Weekly.

2. According to Dr. Young, the storm would first move ___________ because cyclones always do.
(a) Northeast.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northwest.

3. Throughout September, how many bodies a day are the crews finding?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

4. What does Louise Hopkins think the walls in house look like they doing?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Growing.
(c) Disintegrating.
(d) Crumbling.

5. What is the name of the most elegant hotel in Galveston?
(a) Driskoll.
(b) Strand.
(c) Tremont.
(d) Wilshire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?

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

3. General Hazen is in charge of what?

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

5. How many feet above sea level is Dr. Young's yard?

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