Blizzard! Chapter One The Unholy One Pages 1

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

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