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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 the beach is St. Mary's Orphanage?
(a) On the beach.
(b) Three blocks.
(c) One block.
(d) Two blocks.

2. What does Louise Hopkins think the walls in house look like they doing?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Crumbling.
(c) Disintegrating.
(d) Growing.

3. Throughout September, how many bodies a day are the crews finding?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 10.
(d) 100.

4. What saves the life of Dr. Young's wife?
(a) A door.
(b) A telegram.
(c) A tree.
(d) A train.

5. What is the name of Louise's best friend who lives across the street?
(a) Mary.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Megan.
(d) Martha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Captain Halsey temporarily dock the Louisiana after the storm?

2. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?

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

4. What is the name of Isaac's youngest daughter?

5. What is everywhere as the storm waters rise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does August Rollfing experience during the hurricane?

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

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

4. What is John Blagden experiencing during the storm?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens to Isaac the day after the storm?

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

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