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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people took shelter in Judson Palmer's house in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 23.
(b) 34.
(c) 8.
(d) 17.

2. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
(a) September, 1899.
(b) August, 1900.
(c) June, 1897.
(d) July, 1904.

3. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Jones.
(b) Dean Bruner.
(c) Dean Williams.
(d) Dean Frank.

4. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?
(a) Barometer.
(b) Heliograph.
(c) Thermograph.
(d) Clinometer.

5. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) John Blagden.
(c) Chauncey Depew.
(d) Henry Howgate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

2. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?

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

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

5. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?

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