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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Denver.
(d) San Francisco.

2. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) John Blagden.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

3. Who was the engineer of the Galveston-Houston train that became trapped in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) A. V. Kellogg.

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?
(a) October 1, 1899.
(b) May12, 1901.
(c) August 31, 1900.
(d) July 18, 1898.

5. Joseph attempted to phone to Washington, but the telephone operator wouldn't put him through because there were how many people ahead of him waiting to place calls?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 300.
(d) 2,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?

2. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?

3. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?

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

5. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

(see the answer key)

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