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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 aspects of the weather does Isaac record?
(a) Temperature and barometric pressures.
(b) Wave heights.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Rainfall and wind speeds.

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

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

4. What piece of debris in the prairies outside of Galveston is particularly disturbing to Col. Sterett?
(a) A ship.
(b) A destroyed house.
(c) A dead horse.
(d) A rocking horse.

5. General Hazen is in charge of what?
(a) U.S. Weather Bureau.
(b) U.S. Army.
(c) U.S. Signal Corps.
(d) U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are in the orphanage at the time of the storm?

2. What is everywhere as the storm waters rise?

3. Whose birthday does eight-year-old Henry Cortes come to Galveston to celebrate the day of the storm?

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

5. What is Isaac's occupation in addition to being a meteorologist?

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