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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. By what time is the water covering the first three blocks from the beach on the day of the storm?
(a) 11:30 a.m.
(b) 4:30 p.m.
(c) 2:30 p.m.
(d) 7:30 p.m.

2. Who correctly predicts the hurricane in Cuba?
(a) Col. Dunwoody.
(b) Father Gangoite.
(c) William Stockman.
(d) Father Vine.

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

4. Growing up, Isaac loves to read books by ____________.
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Jules Verne.

5. Isaac and his colleagues believe that the ____ is the single most destructive element in a hurricane.
(a) Rain.
(b) Waves.
(c) Air pressure.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ironic numbers does the Galveston News report the morning of the hurricane?

2. What is the name of the tropical storm that dumped record amounts of rain on the Texas coast in 1979?

3. Isaac believes in ___________.

4. Where does Captain Halsey temporarily dock the Louisiana after the storm?

5. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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