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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Dr. Sam Young's located?
(a) East 65th St.
(b) The West End.
(c) Bath and P ½..
(d) Smith and Vine.

2. The wind was measured at what speed from the Galveston weather station in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 160 mph.
(b) 95 mph.
(c) 135 mph.
(d) 110 mph.

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

4. 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) Train.
(b) Messanger pigeon.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Boat.

5. By what date does the author write that the streets of Galveston were cleaned, there were no pyres, the decomposition odor had lifted and new construction was everywhere?
(a) March 20, 1903.
(b) December 31, 1900.
(c) September 5, 1902.
(d) January 19, 1904.

6. August Rollfing hired a driver and buggy with orders to pick up his wife and children and take them to his mother's house where in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) Dallas.
(b) The North End.
(c) The West End.
(d) Austin.

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

8. Isaac Cline's neighbor sent a telegram to whom, telling them to delay a trip into Galveston?
(a) His mother.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His wife.

9. How many passengers were on the train from Beaumont, Texas, traveling into Galveston during the storm?
(a) 95.
(b) 58.
(c) 6.
(d) 22.

10. The train coming from Beaumont, Texas, into Galveston during the storm was traveling along the flooded tracks of what?
(a) The Texas panhandle.
(b) The Amarillo causeway.
(c) Lone Star Ridge.
(d) The Bolivar Peninsula.

11. After the storm, there were so many dead that the city resolved to do what with the corpses?
(a) Transport the bodies to Louisiana.
(b) Create a mass grave.
(c) Hire workers from out of state to bury them.
(d) Bury them at sea.

12. 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 _______________.
(a) No evacuation.
(b) Building walls of sandbags.
(c) A full evacuation.
(d) Hurricane warning flags.

13. 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) South.
(b) Northwest.
(c) Southwest.
(d) North.

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

15. It was estimated that at the height of the storm, the barometric pressure fell to __________.
(a) 27.49.
(b) 29.44.
(c) 28.72.
(d) 30.19.

Short Answer Questions

1. At one point the water rushed in Dr. Young's second story window which was how many feet above the street?

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

3. Where was the letter that Willis Moore wrote defending the forecasting conducted by the Weather Bureau published?

4. By the end of the week after the storm, businesses were placing ads in the News assuring customers that they would not ______________.

5. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?

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