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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. After the storm, Anthony Credo learned that he had lost a total of how many family members?
(a) 3.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

2. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) Hispaniola.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Niger.
(d) The Bolivar Peninsula.

3. Isaac visited some merchants whom he told to raise their products how high off the floor because there could be some minor flooding?
(a) 1 foot.
(b) 5 feet.
(c) 10 inches.
(d) 3 feet.

4. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?
(a) North.
(b) Southwest.
(c) South.
(d) Northwest.

5. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Byzantines.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.

3. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

4. What did Isaac do with his wife's engagement ring after it was recovered from the wreckage?

5. Isaac Cline and which neighbor were on the beach at dawn on Saturday as the storm rolled in?

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