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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In search for his wife, Isaac visited the hospital which withstood the storm and then on to a temporary morgue where how many bodies had been delivered?
(a) 20.
(b) 110.
(c) 50.
(d) 170.

2. How many of the passengers on the train from Beaumont, Texas, departed and headed to a lighthouse they saw in the distance when the train was trapped?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

3. What rabbi was shocked to see all the people walking away from the beach and carrying personal items with them in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Matthew Lithburg.
(b) Henry Cohen.
(c) Rodney Maher.
(d) Matthew Cohen.

4. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) George Washington.

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part III: Spectacle, Isaac Cline drove the beach from one end to the other shouting at people to do what?

2. In November 1703, the coast of England was hit by a series of powerful storms, killing more than how many seamen?

3. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?

4. What sixteen-year-old was washed to the mainland and was given up for dead but reappeared a week later in Part V: Strange News?

5. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?

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