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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law of Storms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Isaac Cline born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1885.

2. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?
(a) Joseph Cline.
(b) William Cline.
(c) Matthew Cline.
(d) Robert Cline.

3. What was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) Willis Moore.
(c) William Redfield.
(d) Ruby Credo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?

2. In November 1703, the coast of England was hit by a series of powerful storms, killing more than how many seamen?

3. What city suffered from twelve consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or above, prior to the hurricane that hit Galveston?

4. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?

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

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