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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspects of the weather does Isaac record?
(a) Rainfall and wind speeds.
(b) Temperature and barometric pressures.
(c) Wave heights.
(d) Climate change.

2. Growing up, Isaac loves to read books by ____________.
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Jules Verne.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. What is the name of the missing ship out of Tampa?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Olive.
(c) Alamo.
(d) Pensacola.

4. What ironic numbers does the Galveston News report the morning of the hurricane?
(a) U.S. census numbers.
(b) Life span rate.
(c) New births.
(d) Death rate.

5. The storm begins with the awakening of ___________.
(a) People.
(b) Evil.
(c) Meteorologists.
(d) Molecules.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Zebrowski, a hurricane can start with all these except one:

2. Where is Isaac sent to set up a weather station in Texas?

3. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?

4. What is the thing that finally gets Galveston residents to take the storm seriously?

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

(see the answer key)

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