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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. Where does Isaac meet his wife?
(a) College.
(b) Church.
(c) Train.
(d) Work.

2. What does Moore ban from Cuba?
(a) Telegrams about weather.
(b) Hurricane warnings.
(c) Cigars.
(d) Scientists from studying in America.

3. How many storms are there in the hurricane season before Galveston?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

4. What does Isaac become obsessed with after an article he wrote is rejected?
(a) Wind.
(b) Rain.
(c) Hail.
(d) Storms.

5. How many cyclones has Captain Halsey survived?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Isaac record weather?

2. On what street do Isaac and his family live in Galveston?

3. What is the name of the missing ship out of Tampa?

4. How many people does the last paragraph of "The Beach" say will die in the next twenty-four hours?

5. Roofs in Galveston are shingled in ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Isaac do for the U.S. Weather Bureau?

3. How does Larson describe the center of a hurricane?

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

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

6. What is the butterfly effect?

7. What characteristics do they know in 1900 that all hurricanes have in common?

8. What was Isaac's childhood like?

9. What happens to the weather in Galveston two days before the storm?

10. What is the difference between Isaac and Joseph's points of view in the early morning hours of September 8?

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