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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 was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?
(a) "The Colorado."
(b) "The California."
(c) "The Louisiana."
(d) "The Virginia."

2. In what year did Isaac Cline join the meteorology training program of the US Army Signal Corps?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1892.

3. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1929.

4. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Matthew Fontaine Maury.

5. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?
(a) Southwest.
(b) Northwest.
(c) South.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?

2. 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?

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

4. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?

5. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

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