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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many lives does Isaac say were saved because of his warnings?
(a) 500.
(b) 200.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 3,000.

3. Whom does Isaac save from the floodwaters?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Esther.
(d) Rosemary.

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

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

6. The adults gathering at the beach use the following words to describe the storm except one.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Spectacular.
(c) Horrifying.
(d) Grand.

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

8. How much does the floodwater suddenly rise in a matter of seconds at one point in the storm?
(a) Six feet.
(b) Four feet.
(c) Six inches.
(d) Four inches.

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

10. Monagan describes the first night they spend in Galveston bay as one of ______________.
(a) Horrible sights.
(b) Horrible dreams.
(c) Horrible sounds.
(d) Horrible smells.

11. What kind of dog is Joseph's pet that miraculously swims to their raft?
(a) Hound.
(b) Pointer.
(c) Mutt.
(d) Retriever.

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

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

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

15. Whom did Isaac tell he was afraid that he may have underestimated the storm?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Credo.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Cora.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Anthony Credo have?

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

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

4. How do the soldiers at Fort San Jacinto signal for help during the storm?

5. What is the thing that finally gets Galveston residents to take the storm seriously?

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