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

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

3. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?
(a) The Samurai Revolution.
(b) The Panda Movement.
(c) The Bamboo Storm.
(d) The Boxer Rebellion.

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1885.

5. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Evangelista Torricelli.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Edmund Halley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

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

3. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?

4. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?

5. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?

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