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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Isaac?
(a) 34.
(b) 38.
(c) 29.
(d) 42.

2. Isaac receives conflicting reports about the storm's intensity from where?
(a) Florida.
(b) Washington.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Mexico.

3. What is the date at the opening of the book?
(a) September 8, 1999.
(b) September 9, 1900.
(c) September 7, 1900.
(d) September 7, 1901.

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

5. Who coined the word "cyclone" to describe hurricane damage?
(a) William Redfield.
(b) Henry Piddington.
(c) Isaac Cline.
(d) Col. William Read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Isaac's occupation in addition to being a meteorologist?

2. What country is leading the innovation in predicting hurricanes at the time of the story?

3. What is the name of the tropical storm that dumped record amounts of rain on the Texas coast in 1979?

4. What time does six-year-old Isaac get up to start his chores?

5. How many people die from the heat in New York City on August 11, 1900?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Isaac believe that no storm could harm Galveston?

2. How did Isaac meet his wife?

3. What does the Galveston newspaper advertise as being the chic look for the summer of 1900?

4. What was Isaac's childhood like?

5. How did Isaac do in the initial part of his training for the weather service?

6. What kind of man does the narrator describe Isaac to be?

7. How does Moore treat the weather forecasting being done in Cuba?

8. How was weather recorded before the creation of the weather service?

9. What does Captain J. W. Simmons of the Pensacola experience after his ship leaves Galveston the morning of the hurricane?

10. How is Isaac a reflection of the country at this time?

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