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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. By what time is the water covering the first three blocks from the beach on the day of the storm?
2. What is the name of the gentleman who leads people off the flooding second train?
3. How many lives does Isaac say were saved because of his warnings?
4. How many people take refuge in the Cline house during the storm?
5. Whom did Isaac tell he was afraid that he may have underestimated the storm?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the misconceptions that Isaac and his colleagues have about hurricanes?
2. What is John Blagden experiencing during the storm?
3. What does August Rollfing experience during the hurricane?
4. How do the children of Galveston react in the early hours of the storm?
5. What does Louisa Rollfing experience when she and her children try to take a coach to her mother-in-law's house?
6. What is Col. William Sterett's experience as he enters Galveston?
7. How does Moore distort the truth about how he handled the hurricane?
8. What does Louise Hopkins' mother do when the water started to rise?
9. What is Captain Simmons experiencing on the Pensacola as the storm intensifies?
10. How does Isaac handle Moore's lies and distortion of the truth about how the Weather Bureau handled the hurricane?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the use of descriptive and figurative language used throughout the story and the effect they have on the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Was the hurricane truly Isaac's Storm? How much of the blame for the loss of life should lie at Isaac's feet?
Essay Topic 3
Isaac said this in relation to deciding on a career: "I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth." Discuss what he means by this as well as whether he accomplished this goal. What is prophetic about this quote in relation to the hurricane?
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