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

2. In 1891, the weather service comes under the control of what organization?
(a) Department of Agriculture.
(b) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(c) Department of the Interior.
(d) Department of Defense.

3. Where did Isaac earn a college degree?
(a) University of Texas.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) University of Arkansas.

4. How old is Isaac?
(a) 34.
(b) 29.
(c) 42.
(d) 38.

5. In what city does the temperature hit 100.6 on August 11, 1900?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Portland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Captain Halsey's ship?

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

3. Who correctly predicts the hurricane in Cuba?

4. What does Isaac raise late the morning of the hurricane?

5. What is Isaac sent to Arkansas to study?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Isaac a reflection of the country at this time?

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

3. Why was the creation of the Weather Service controversial?

4. How did Isaac meet his wife?

5. What is Galveston like in 1900?

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

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

8. What is the butterfly effect?

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

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

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