Blizzard! Chapter One The Unholy One Pages 1 - 9
Quiz
The winter of 1888 had been ____________ in the East.
- bitterly cold
- one of the warmest winters on record
- snowy and cold
John J. Mesisinger, a hardware buyer for E. Ridley and Sons, was made fun of for ________________.
- the sermon he preached that Sunday
- writing a poem about dandelions
- spending $1200 for snow shovels
___________ snow storms were heading east.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Before the United States National Weather Service there was an agency called _________________________ that forecasted the weather.
- U.S. Army Signal Corps
- Satellite Weather Service
- State to State Weather News
- Equitable Weather
The New York City Weather Station sent weather reports to local newspapers by ______________.
- telephone
- fax
- telegraph
- carrier pigeon
The weather was NOT monitored ____________________.
- from midnight on Saturday to 5 PM on Sunday afternoon
- from dawn on Sunday morning to dawn on Monday morning
- from Friday at 5 PM to 8 AM on Monday morning
- during Sunday church service
On Sunday morning the sky looked ________________.
- bright and sunny
- blue with white fast moving fluffy looking clouds
- dark with ominously looking clouds
The main idea of Chapter 1 is to _____________________.
- describe New York City in the year 1888
- prepare the reader of the events that will happen later in the book
- discuss weather prediction
- make fun of John J. Meisinger