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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. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Climatology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Ecology.
(d) Stormology.

2. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) The Byzantines.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Greeks.

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

4. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) George Washington.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

5. The fact that Isaac Cline paid cash for goods and services was published in a directory by what company?
(a) The Smithwick Textile Corporation.
(b) Jameson's Shoe Company.
(c) The Giles Mercantile Agency.
(d) The Bolivar Lighthouse Association.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?

3. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?

4. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

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

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