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

2. 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) March 1, 1911.
(b) January 22, 1894.
(c) September 7, 1900.
(d) May 16, 1898.

3. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Buffalo Bill Cody.

4. 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?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

3. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

5. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?

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