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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
(a) Colonel William Sterett.
(b) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(c) Evangelista Torricelli.
(d) Chief Willis Moore's.

2. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(c) Topeka, Kansas.
(d) Omaha, Nebraska.

3. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, Isaac walked to the beach and noted the arrival of a large British steamship called _____________.
(a) The Queen Mary III.
(b) The King Charles II.
(c) Englands Majesty.
(d) The Roma.

4. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1893.

5. In August of what year did Columbus' ships sail on smooth waters under blue skies when an observer sounded the alarm after sighting huge swells just ahead, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1527.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1654.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?

3. The sequence that consisted of dry air, blue skies, and fair conditions changed to dominating high clouds and gray skies. Eventually, dark skies and a lower cloud ceiling were known as the _____________.

4. What refers to the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere?

5. The ship "The Louisiana" sailed from what location to Galveston during the hurricane of 1900?

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