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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: Haunted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the heart of the weather service?
(a) Wind measurements.
(b) The anemometer.
(c) Forecasting.
(d) The telegraph.

2. What is the wind speed that Captain Halsey records on his ship the day of the hurricane?
(a) 100 m.p.h.
(b) 175 m.p.h.
(c) 150 m.p.h.
(d) 125 m.p.h.

3. After the hurricane, Isaac felt _________.
(a) Hope
(b) Despair.
(c) Pride.
(d) Guilt.

4. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?
(a) Carrier pigeon.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Currier.
(d) Telephone.

5. Where is Isaac's office?
(a) Avenue Q.
(b) The Strand.
(c) Tremont Street.
(d) Levy Building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is leading the innovation in predicting hurricanes at the time of the story?

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

3. The author quotes the following newspapers as commending the U.S. Weather Bureau's forecasting during the hurricane, except one:

4. The barometer reading Joseph takes the night before the storm is ____________.

5. The total number of deaths from hurricanes in Galveston between 1919 and 1983 is less than _________.

(see the answer key)

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