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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 blocks from his house does Isaac's raft finally run aground?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

2. What building does Isaac see is still intact after the hurricane?
(a) Ursuline convent.
(b) His house.
(c) Levy Building.
(d) Orphanage.

3. Who lives in Louise's boarding house?
(a) Students.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Fishermen.
(d) Doctors.

4. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?
(a) Body of a woman.
(b) An empty boat.
(c) A hoard of rats.
(d) Body of a child.

5. What does a strong wind topple over on New Year's Eve 1900?
(a) A stone at Stonehenge.
(b) The light atop the Eiffel Tower.
(c) Captain Simmons' docked ship.
(d) A brick from the leaning tower of Pisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the gentleman who leads people off the flooding second train?

2. What is the most influential magazine in the country in 1900?

3. What time did the first train of the day arrive in Galveston during the hurricane?

4. How many children are in the orphanage at the time of the storm?

5. What national disaster had the highest death toll before the Galveston hurricane?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it initially not alarming to have lost all telegraph communication with Galveston?

2. What does Louisa Rollfing experience when she and her children try to take a coach to her mother-in-law's house?

3. How do the children of Galveston react in the early hours of the storm?

4. What happens to the second train headed to Galveston the day of the storm?

5. What does August Rollfing experience during the hurricane?

6. How does Isaac write his official report about the hurricane?

7. What is Captain Simmons experiencing on the Pensacola as the storm intensifies?

8. In addition to the miracle of surviving the storm, what other miracle do Joseph and Isaac experience on the day of the hurricane?

9. What is the first event that causes Galveston residents to begin to take the storm seriously?

10. Why does Joseph want his telegram to the U.S. Weather Bureau chief be kept completely confidential?

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