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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who insisted on staying in Isaac Cline's house, believing it to be capable of withstanding the storm?
(a) Joseph Cline.
(b) Cora Cline.
(c) Isaac Cline.
(d) Laura Cline.

2. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?
(a) Colonel Sterett.
(b) General Hazen.
(c) Captain Simmons.
(d) Chief Moore.

3. 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) 170.
(b) 50.
(c) 110.
(d) 20.

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

5. The morning after the storm passed, the house where Isaac and his daughters had found shelter in was how far from his own house?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 10 blocks.
(c) 3 blocks.
(d) 5 miles.

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

7. How many of the passengers on the train from Beaumont, Texas, departed and headed to a lighthouse they saw in the distance when the train was trapped?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 25.
(d) 17.

8. Who insisted that the family evacuate Isaac Cline's house because it was too dangerous in Part III: Spectacle?
(a) Isaac Cline.
(b) Joseph Cline.
(c) Laura Cline.
(d) Cora Cline.

9. Who was a new employee at the Galveston weather station that found himself alone in the office?
(a) John Blagden.
(b) Bat Masterson.
(c) Captain J. W. Simmons.
(d) William B. Stockman.

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

11. Bodies continued to emerge from the wreckage at an average of how many per day?
(a) 55.
(b) 35.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.

12. Galveston was the victim of two storm surges, one from the Gulf and one from ____________.
(a) The reef.
(b) Mexico.
(c) The dunes.
(d) The bay.

13. It is estimated that wind gusts hit how many miles per hour during the hurricane in Galveston in 1900?
(a) 200.
(b) 176..
(c) 162.
(d) 185.

14. In Part IV: Cataclysm, a telegram was sent from the weather station where to the Chief of the US Weather Bureau in Washington, DC, informing him that they had lost all contact with the Galveston office?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Miami, Florida.
(c) Houston, Texas.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

15. Who was eight months pregnant and saw her house collapse on her husband and three-year-old son?
(a) Mrs. Heideman.
(b) Mrs. Englund.
(c) Mrs. Thompson.
(d) Mrs. Grimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wind was measured at what speed from the Galveston weather station in Part IV: Cataclysm?

2. Isaac Cline's house capsized after being hit by what object?

3. 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?

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

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

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