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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. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) Hispaniola.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(d) Niger.

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

3. The invention of the __________ was key to the development and effectiveness of the Weather Bureau allowing for the rapid transmission of weather forecasts from city to city.
(a) Automobile.
(b) Train.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Camera.

4. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Pushwind.
(b) Nonlinear dynamics.
(c) Headwind.
(d) Tailwind.

5. Despite Isaac's alarm, his office still downplayed the potential severity of the storm, referring to it by what name?
(a) A moderate hail event.
(b) An average rainstorm.
(c) An offspur of the Florida storm.
(d) A twenty-year storm.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?

4. What sixteen-year-old was washed to the mainland and was given up for dead but reappeared a week later in Part V: Strange News?

5. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.

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