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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 term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Pushwind.
(c) Tailwind.
(d) Headwind.

2. 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) 14.
(d) 65.

3. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Joe Amando.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Chauncey Depew.
(d) Henry Piddington.

4. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?
(a) July 6, 1882.
(b) April 2, 1894.
(c) October 11, 1887.
(d) July 25, 1885.

5. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
(a) Niger.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Cameroon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. 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?

4. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

5. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?

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