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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. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) J. W. Simmons.

2. What city suffered from twelve consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or above, prior to the hurricane that hit Galveston?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Springfield, Illinois.
(c) St Louis, Missouri.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

3. What did Isaac see sitting on every available object when he reached home?
(a) Birds.
(b) Bees.
(c) Marmots.
(d) Frogs.

4. How many people took shelter in Judson Palmer's house in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 34.
(b) 8.
(c) 23.
(d) 17.

5. What were dispatched around town collecting bodies?
(a) "Dead Gangs."
(b) "Cadaver Collectors."
(c) "Corpse Wranglers."
(d) "Body Bandits."

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

2. Bodies continued to emerge from the wreckage at an average of how many per day?

3. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?

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

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