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

2. What floats into the train station, causing the people waiting there to be alarmed for the first time?
(a) Body of a woman.
(b) An empty boat.
(c) A hoard of rats.
(d) Body of a child.

3. What does Joseph use against the man who is pushing the children away from him on the raft?
(a) Splintered wood.
(b) Broken glass.
(c) Metal pole.
(d) A knife.

4. How many lives does Isaac say were saved because of his warnings?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.

5. What day do they find Cora Cline's body?
(a) October 2.
(b) September 22.
(c) September 16.
(d) September 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives in Louise's boarding house?

2. How does Joseph get a message to the Weather Bureau as the storm hits Galveston?

3. What does August Rollfing do when he finds his family at his sister's house?

4. How many people take refuge in the Cline house during the storm?

5. What piece of debris in the prairies outside of Galveston is particularly disturbing to Col. Sterett?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Galveston handle the overwhelming number of dead bodies?

2. In addition to the miracle of surviving the storm, what other miracle do Joseph and Isaac experience on the day of the hurricane?

3. What does Louisa Rollfing experience when she and her children try to take a coach to her mother-in-law's house?

4. What is John Blagden experiencing during the storm?

5. What happens to the second train headed to Galveston the day of the storm?

6. How do the children of Galveston react in the early hours of the storm?

7. What are some of the misconceptions that Isaac and his colleagues have about hurricanes?

8. Why does Joseph want his telegram to the U.S. Weather Bureau chief be kept completely confidential?

9. What does Louise Hopkins' mother do when the water started to rise?

10. What does Dr. Young experience as darkness falls on Galveston?

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