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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. Where does Simmons dock his ship?
(a) 9th Street.
(b) Avenue P.
(c) 23rd Street.
(d) Galveston Port.

2. Where does the Louisiana makes its intended voyage to after the storm?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) New York.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Boston.

3. Monagan describes the first night they spend in Galveston bay as one of ______________.
(a) Horrible sights.
(b) Horrible smells.
(c) Horrible dreams.
(d) Horrible sounds.

4. What is the thing that finally gets Galveston residents to take the storm seriously?
(a) Ritter's Cafe roof collapse.
(b) Midway destroyed.
(c) The Strand destroyed.
(d) A child drowning.

5. What Galveston landmark does Captain Simmons see first after the hurricane?
(a) Grain elevator.
(b) The convent.
(c) Lighthouse.
(d) The Strand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do some of the occupants of the second train go to ride out the storm?

2. What is the name of Louise's best friend who lives across the street?

3. When does Moore contend the hurricane warning flags were raised in Galveston?

4. How many blocks from his house does Isaac's raft finally run aground?

5. Louisa Rollfing says the noise of the hurricane sounded like ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moore distort the truth about how he handled the hurricane?

2. What does Isaac claim that he did after observing conditions on the beach the morning of the storm?

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

4. How do people in Galveston initially react to the storm?

5. How do Joseph's and Isaac's accounts of the hurricane differ in tone?

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

7. How does the mood change on the train with members of the military and other people from Houston as it gets closer to Galveston?

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

9. How does Galveston handle the overwhelming number of dead bodies?

10. How does Isaac handle Moore's lies and distortion of the truth about how the Weather Bureau handled the hurricane?

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