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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. For whom does Isaac record weather?
(a) University of Texas.
(b) U.S. Weather Bureau.
(c) U.S. Signal Corps.
(d) Galveston Times.

2. What does Joseph come to Galveston to be?
(a) Weatherman.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Salesman.

3. Who is William Stockman?
(a) U.S. forecast official in Havana.
(b) Ambassador to Cuba.
(c) Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
(d) Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.

4. What year is London hit with a devastating cyclone?
(a) 1703.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1902.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?

2. In what field is Isaac a pioneer?

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

4. What does Isaac become obsessed with after an article he wrote is rejected?

5. How many people does the last paragraph of "The Beach" say will die in the next twenty-four hours?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to the weather in Galveston two days before the storm?

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

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

7. What is the butterfly effect?

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

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

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

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