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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law of Storms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the steamship in the gulf on the day of the Hurricane?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Utah.
(d) Pensacola.

2. How many people die from the heat in New York City on August 11, 1900?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

3. What could Isaac feel the night before the storm?
(a) The waves.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The wind.
(d) Dread.

4. Where do Isaac and his family go on Sundays?
(a) Catholic church.
(b) The movies.
(c) Synagogue.
(d) The bathhouses.

5. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.
(a) Pacific.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Gobi.
(d) Sahara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What immigrant group makes up one-third of the Galveston population in 1889?

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

3. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?

4. The Friday before the hurricane brings what?

5. Isaac receives conflicting reports about the storm's intensity from where?

(see the answer key)

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