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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the thing that finally gets Galveston residents to take the storm seriously?
(a) Midway destroyed.
(b) Ritter's Cafe roof collapse.
(c) The Strand destroyed.
(d) A child drowning.

3. What ironic numbers does the Galveston News report the morning of the hurricane?
(a) Death rate.
(b) U.S. census numbers.
(c) Life span rate.
(d) New births.

4. What does Mrs. Hopkins plan to use as a raft?
(a) A door.
(b) A tire.
(c) A wooden beam.
(d) A mattress.

5. Who lives in Louise's boarding house?
(a) Students.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Fishermen.

6. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?
(a) Body of a child.
(b) A hoard of rats.
(c) An empty boat.
(d) Body of a woman.

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

8. How long has John Blagden been working in Galveston before the hurricane?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Six days.
(d) Two years.

9. What time did the first train of the day arrive in Galveston during the hurricane?
(a) 1:15 p.m.
(b) 9:00 a.m.
(c) 2:30 p.m.
(d) 11:30 a.m.

10. What are the first casualties of the storm that the train from Houston encounters after the storm?
(a) Farm workers.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Cows.
(d) Children.

11. What building does Isaac see is still intact after the hurricane?
(a) His house.
(b) Levy Building.
(c) Ursuline convent.
(d) Orphanage.

12. What is the name of Louise's best friend who lives across the street?
(a) Martha.
(b) Mary.
(c) Megan.
(d) Margaret.

13. What does Joseph use against the man who is pushing the children away from him on the raft?
(a) Broken glass.
(b) A knife.
(c) Splintered wood.
(d) Metal pole.

14. What destroys Isaac's house during the storm?
(a) A boat.
(b) A train car.
(c) A trestle.
(d) A buggy.

15. Col. William Sterett is a writer for which newspaper?
(a) Dallas News.
(b) New York Times.
(c) The Houstonian.
(d) Austin-American Statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men are eating at Ritter's Cafe and Saloon when the roof falls?

2. Whom did Isaac tell he was afraid that he may have underestimated the storm?

3. Where do they find Cora Cline's body?

4. What causes so many children at the orphanage to die?

5. Isaac recognizes his wife's body from her _________.

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