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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 _____________.
(a) August breeze.
(b) August wave.
(c) July dream.
(d) July rollercoaster.

2. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
(a) 7.
(b) 25.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

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

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

5. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
(a) Morocco.
(b) Niger.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Cameroon.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was the Chief of the U S Weather Bureau in 1900?

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

4. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?

5. How many of the passengers on the train from Beaumont, Texas, departed and headed to a lighthouse they saw in the distance when the train was trapped?

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