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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is everywhere as the storm waters rise?
(a) Flies.
(b) Locusts.
(c) Lizards.
(d) Toads.

2. Isaac receives conflicting reports about the storm's intensity from where?
(a) Washington.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Florida.

3. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?
(a) Barometer.
(b) Tidal chart.
(c) Wind speed.
(d) Thermometer.

4. What is Isaac sent to Arkansas to study?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Bats.
(c) Grasshoppers.
(d) Ants.

5. What does Isaac become obsessed with after an article he wrote is rejected?
(a) Wind.
(b) Hail.
(c) Storms.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Galveston experience a big fire?

2. What does the Weather Bureau forbid its stations from doing?

3. How old is Isaac?

4. Whom did Isaac tell he was afraid that he may have underestimated the storm?

5. What country is leading the innovation in predicting hurricanes at the time of the story?

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