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

2. The barometer reading Joseph takes the night before the storm is ____________.
(a) Under 28.
(b) Rising.
(c) Falling.
(d) Over 30.

3. What does Moore ban from Cuba?
(a) Telegrams about weather.
(b) Scientists from studying in America.
(c) Cigars.
(d) Hurricane warnings.

4. Where is Isaac sent to set up a weather station in Texas?
(a) Fort Concho.
(b) San Angelo.
(c) Fort Sumter.
(d) Midland.

5. Where do the American forecasters think the storm is headed?
(a) Out to sea.
(b) Texas coastline.
(c) Atlantic coast.
(d) Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field is Isaac a pioneer?

2. Where is Isaac's office?

3. Where does Isaac meet his wife?

4. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.

5. How do the soldiers at Fort San Jacinto signal for help during the storm?

(see the answer key)

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