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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. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1941.

2. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Henry Howgate.

3. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?
(a) The Panda Movement.
(b) The Bamboo Storm.
(c) The Boxer Rebellion.
(d) The Samurai Revolution.

4. Isaac Cline and which neighbor were on the beach at dawn on Saturday as the storm rolled in?
(a) A. V. Kellogg.
(b) Colonel William Sterett.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) Dr. Young.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Isaac returned to work the week after the storm, the instruments in his office were still out, and he was forced to communicate by what means to the Houston station?

2. Isaac was bothered the most by Willis Moore's statement in the letter that Galveston had received warnings and that Isaac's office had ordered _______________.

3. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?

4. What daughter of Ruby Credo's was severely injured when a piece of wood was driven through her arm?

5. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?

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