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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Zebrowski, a hurricane can start with all these except one:
(a) A burst of heat from a gunnery drill.
(b) A rain drop hitting a leaf.
(c) A plume of hot sea.
(d) The flutter of a butterfly's wings.

2. What is the name of the tropical storm that dumped record amounts of rain on the Texas coast in 1979?
(a) Claudette.
(b) Camille.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Catherine.

3. According to Dr. Young, the storm would first move ___________ because cyclones always do.
(a) Northwest.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northeast.

4. Dr. Young notes that all the signs are present for a _____________ the days before the hurricane.
(a) Cyclone.
(b) Low pressure system.
(c) Tropical storm.
(d) Heat wave.

5. Where do some of the occupants of the second train go to ride out the storm?
(a) Trestle bridge.
(b) Lighthouse.
(c) Steam ship.
(d) Grain silo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Isaac consider one of the great pioneers of meteorology?

2. What is everywhere as the storm waters rise?

3. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?

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

5. Besides being an amateur meteorologist, Dr. Young is also _____________.

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