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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1892.

2. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1915.

3. Isaac privately wished he would have brought his family __________ for their safety during the storm.
(a) St. Mary's Orphanage.
(b) To his office.
(c) The Bolivar Lighthouse.
(d) Dallas.

4. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 14.
(b) 30.
(c) 65.
(d) 147.

5. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Morocco.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Niger.
(d) Cuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

2. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

3. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?

4. The manager of the phone company was finally able to get Joseph Cline in touch with whom?

5. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?

(see the answer key)

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