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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 is the name of the missing ship out of Tampa?
(a) Olive.
(b) Alamo.
(c) Pensacola.
(d) Louisiana.

2. Who coined the word "cyclone" to describe hurricane damage?
(a) Col. William Read.
(b) Isaac Cline.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Henry Piddington.

3. Where does Isaac give a speech about weather to a packed crowd?
(a) Galveston Civic Center.
(b) Galveston YMCA.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Washington.

4. How many cyclones has Captain Halsey survived?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Fifteen.

5. How many people does the last paragraph of "The Beach" say will die in the next twenty-four hours?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 4,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is London hit with a devastating cyclone?

2. Where did Isaac grow up?

3. Who wakes Isaac at 4 a.m. the morning of the hurricane?

4. Where do the American forecasters think the storm is headed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does hail become an obsession of Isaac's?

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

3. How did Isaac do in the initial part of his training for the weather service?

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

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

6. What is the weather like across the country during August 1900?

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

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

9. What might have saved thousands of lives in Galveston?

10. What is unusual about the summer of 1900 across the world?

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