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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. What does Mrs. Hopkins plan to use as a raft?
2. The author quotes the following newspapers as commending the U.S. Weather Bureau's forecasting during the hurricane, except one:
3. What is the name of Isaac's youngest daughter?
4. What does August Rollfing do when he finds his family at his sister's house?
5. Whom did Isaac tell he was afraid that he may have underestimated the storm?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the children of Galveston react in the early hours of the storm?
2. What are some of the misconceptions that Isaac and his colleagues have about hurricanes?
3. What is the first event that causes Galveston residents to begin to take the storm seriously?
4. What is Captain Simmons experiencing on the Pensacola as the storm intensifies?
5. What does Isaac claim that he did after observing conditions on the beach the morning of the storm?
6. How do people in Galveston initially react to the storm?
7. In addition to the miracle of surviving the storm, what other miracle do Joseph and Isaac experience on the day of the hurricane?
8. Why is it initially not alarming to have lost all telegraph communication with Galveston?
9. How do Isaac and Dr. Young interpret what they see from the beach Saturday morning differently?
10. What happens to the second train headed to Galveston the day of the storm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Isaac embody the American spirit in 1900? Is this a favorable portrait of the country? Do you think Isaac accurately represents America in 1900?
Essay Topic 2
What is both surprising and tragic about how the residents of Galveston are first unaware of the storm and then revel in its onset? At what moment does the city seem to realize that this is going to end very badly?
Essay Topic 3
How is the history of weather intertwined with Isaac's history? Where and how do they tragically intersect with the future of Galveston?
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