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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Willis Moore?
(a) Mayor of Galveston.
(b) Minister of the First Methodist Church.
(c) U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
(d) Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau.

2. In 1888, what weather disaster does the weather service fail to forecast?
(a) Denver heat wave.
(b) Miami hurricane.
(c) New York City blizzard.
(d) Los Angeles blizzard.

3. On what street do Isaac and his family live in Galveston?
(a) Orchard Avenue.
(b) Avenue Q.
(c) Miles Street.
(d) Main Street.

4. Whom does Isaac consider one of the great pioneers of meteorology?
(a) Daniel Day Lewis.
(b) Willem Defoe.
(c) Daniel Defoe.
(d) William Dampier.

5. How many storms are there in the hurricane season before Galveston?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Isaac meet his wife?

3. Where does Isaac give a speech about weather to a packed crowd?

4. Where is Isaac's office?

5. What could Isaac feel the night before the storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isaac do for the U.S. Weather Bureau?

2. What does the Galveston newspaper advertise as being the chic look for the summer of 1900?

3. What is the difference between Isaac and Joseph's points of view in the early morning hours of September 8?

4. How does Moore treat the weather forecasting being done in Cuba?

5. How was weather recorded before the creation of the weather service?

6. Why does Isaac believe that no storm could harm Galveston?

7. What kind of man does the narrator describe Isaac to be?

8. What is the purpose of the eighteen-page letter that William Stockman sends to Col. Dunwoody?

9. What does Isaac compare the feeling to that he has on the night before the hurricane?

10. What did the crew of Captain William Seymour's ship experience in the eye of a storm in 1837?

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