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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. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1892.

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

3. What college did Isaac Cline attend?
(a) Tulane College.
(b) Menominee College.
(c) Savannah College.
(d) Hiwassee College.

4. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) Seattle.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Denver.

5. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?

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

3. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?

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

5. What was the name of the captain who commanded the "Pensacola"?

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