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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Joe Amando.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Henry Piddington.

2. What college did Isaac Cline attend?
(a) Menominee College.
(b) Hiwassee College.
(c) Tulane College.
(d) Savannah College.

3. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?
(a) Barometer.
(b) Heliograph.
(c) Clinometer.
(d) Thermograph.

4. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) Willis Moore.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Bat Masterson.

5. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

2. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?

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

4. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?

5. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?

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