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

2. On what does Louisa Rollfing's family make a final payment?
(a) House.
(b) Horse.
(c) Piano.
(d) Farm.

3. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.
(a) Pacific.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Sahara.
(d) Gobi.

4. What kind of sleeper is Isaac?
(a) Sound.
(b) Restless.
(c) Light.
(d) Insomniac.

5. According to Zebrowski, a hurricane can start with all these except one:
(a) A plume of hot sea.
(b) A rain drop hitting a leaf.
(c) A burst of heat from a gunnery drill.
(d) The flutter of a butterfly's wings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers are aboard the Louisiana the day of the hurricane?

2. For whom does Isaac record weather?

3. How many miles above sea level is the highest point of Galveston?

4. In 1888, what weather disaster does the weather service fail to forecast?

5. In what year did Galveston experience a big fire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Isaac's childhood like?

4. What does Captain J. W. Simmons of the Pensacola experience after his ship leaves Galveston the morning of the hurricane?

5. What characteristics do they know in 1900 that all hurricanes have in common?

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

7. What is the butterfly effect?

8. Describe the photograph taken of Isaac by New Orleans photographer.

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

10. Why is the final payment on the piano a significant accomplishment to Louisa Rollfing?

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