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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law of Storms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

2. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
(a) Dean Bruner.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Edmund Halley.

3. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1878.

4. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

5. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

2. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?

3. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?

4. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?

5. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

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