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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) Pushwind.
(b) Headwind.
(c) Tailwind.
(d) Nonlinear dynamics.

2. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) J. W. Simmons.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) William Redfield.

3. The sequence that consisted of dry air, blue skies, and fair conditions changed to dominating high clouds and gray skies. Eventually, dark skies and a lower cloud ceiling were known as the _____________.
(a) July rollercoaster.
(b) August breeze.
(c) August wave.
(d) July dream.

4. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
(a) 12.
(b) 25.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

2. The invention of the __________ was key to the development and effectiveness of the Weather Bureau allowing for the rapid transmission of weather forecasts from city to city.

3. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?

4. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?

5. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?

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