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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. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Dean Bruner.
(d) Edmund Halley.

2. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Henry Piddington.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Willis Moore.

3. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
(a) May 16, 1898.
(b) January 22, 1894.
(c) March 1, 1911.
(d) September 7, 1900.

4. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?
(a) Anchorage, Alaska.
(b) Aurora, Illinois.
(c) Albany, New York.
(d) Abilene, Texas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?

2. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

3. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac sent a telegram to the Central Office where advising them that the water was high and there were opposing winds?

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

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?

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