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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. 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?
(a) June 18, 1901.
(b) September 20, 1902.
(c) August 27, 1900.
(d) July 4, 1899.

2. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 65.
(b) 14.
(c) 147.
(d) 30.

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

4. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?
(a) William B. Stockman.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) A. V. Kellogg.
(d) William Dampier.

5. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Denver.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

2. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.

3. Where was Isaac Cline born?

4. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?

5. What college did Isaac Cline attend?

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