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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. Who lives in Louise's boarding house?
2. What does Louise Hopkins think the walls in house look like they doing?
3. Isaac and his colleagues believe that the ____ is the single most destructive element in a hurricane.
4. What destroys Isaac's house during the storm?
5. What day do they find Cora Cline's body?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Joseph's and Isaac's accounts of the hurricane differ in tone?
2. What is Col. William Sterett's experience as he enters Galveston?
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. How does the mood change on the train with members of the military and other people from Houston as it gets closer to Galveston?
6. What are some of the misconceptions that Isaac and his colleagues have about hurricanes?
7. How does Isaac handle Moore's lies and distortion of the truth about how the Weather Bureau handled the hurricane?
8. How does Moore distort the truth about how he handled the hurricane?
9. In addition to the miracle of surviving the storm, what other miracle do Joseph and Isaac experience on the day of the hurricane?
10. What does Dr. Young experience as darkness falls on Galveston?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What elements of human nature are captured in the "Spectacle" potion of the book? How is this shown to be intertwined with the ferocious beauty in nature?
Essay Topic 2
What is the true "Law of Storms" as it pertains to the Galveston hurricane?
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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