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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Louise Hopkins was playing with which friend in the yard when they began to see debris and water rushing down the streets?
(a) Martha.
(b) Wilma.
(c) Melissa.
(d) Jennifer.

2. For how many hours did Dr. Young stay on his raft until he was rescued in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 17.
(b) 38.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

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

4. What did Isaac do with his wife's engagement ring after it was recovered from the wreckage?
(a) Gave it to another woman.
(b) Sold it to a jeweler.
(c) Had it enlarged and wore it.
(d) Tucked it away in a drawer.

5. When Isaac finally reached home in Part III: Spectacle, his yard was already how deep in water?
(a) Chest deep.
(b) Eight inches.
(c) Neck deep.
(d) Two feet.

6. In the early evening, Dr. Young could only see one house in the area that was still standing. It belonged to whom?
(a) The Robertsons.
(b) The Clarks.
(c) The Matthews.
(d) The Youens.

7. By evening, Judson Palmer estimated that the water in his yard was how deep?
(a) 2 feet.
(b) 4 feet.
(c) 7 feet.
(d) 11 feet.

8. The morning after the storm passed, the house where Isaac and his daughters had found shelter in was at what location?
(a) 28th and P Streets.
(b) 61st and M Streets.
(c) 5th and H Streets.
(d) 34th and B Strrets.

9. The storm's track hit Galveston at a 90 degree angle with its eye passing how many miles west of the city?
(a) 15.
(b) 65.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

10. 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) 50.
(b) 170.
(c) 20.
(d) 110.

11. Cuban forecasters indicated that they had correctly predicted that the storm would not __________.
(a) Travel up the Atlantic coast.
(b) Head southwest.
(c) Hit the Rocky Mountains.
(d) Dissipate near Chicago.

12. What writer for the Dallas News took a train from Houston to Galveston?
(a) General William B. Hazen.
(b) Chief Willis Moore.
(c) Colonel William Sterett.
(d) Captain J. W. Simmons.

13. 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?
(a) Anna Delz.
(b) Emily Anniston.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Rebecca Nordstrom.

14. Despite Isaac's alarm, his office still downplayed the potential severity of the storm, referring to it by what name?
(a) A twenty-year storm.
(b) An average rainstorm.
(c) A moderate hail event.
(d) An offspur of the Florida storm.

15. 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?
(a) Boat.
(b) Train.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Messanger pigeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac Cline's neighbor sent a telegram to whom, telling them to delay a trip into Galveston?

2. After the storm, Isaac Cline claimed to have saved over how many people, according to the author in Part III: Spectacle?

3. Who insisted that the family evacuate Isaac Cline's house because it was too dangerous in Part III: Spectacle?

4. There was great concern that ________ would have a mental breakdown after his wife's body was found.

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

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