1. When Isaac finally reached home in Part III: Spectacle, his yard was already how deep in water?
(a) Neck deep.
(b) Eight inches.
(c) Chest deep.
(d) Two feet.

2. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Byzantines.
(d) The Egyptians.

3. What were dispatched around town collecting bodies?
(a) "Cadaver Collectors."
(b) "Body Bandits."
(c) "Corpse Wranglers."
(d) "Dead Gangs."

4. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Edmund Halley.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) John Blagden.

5. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) John Adams.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Pensacola" drifted throughout Saturday and Sunday before who ordered the engines to be restarted and headed to Galveston in Part V: Strange News?

2. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?

3. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?

4. Isaac visited some merchants whom he told to raise their products how high off the floor because there could be some minor flooding?

5. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?

(see the answer key)

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