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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of debris in the prairies outside of Galveston is particularly disturbing to Col. Sterett?
(a) A dead horse.
(b) A ship.
(c) A rocking horse.
(d) A destroyed house.

2. What does August Rollfing do when he finds his family at his sister's house?
(a) Cries.
(b) Faints.
(c) Whoops.
(d) Leaves.

3. What kind of sleeper is Isaac?
(a) Restless.
(b) Sound.
(c) Insomniac.
(d) Light.

4. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?
(a) Telegraph.
(b) Carrier pigeon.
(c) Currier.
(d) Telephone.

5. What does Louise Hopkins think the walls in house look like they doing?
(a) Crumbling.
(b) Growing.
(c) Disintegrating.
(d) Breathing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Isaac and his family go on Sundays?

3. Who coined the word "cyclone" to describe hurricane damage?

4. Where do some of the occupants of the second train go to ride out the storm?

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

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