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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: The Beach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?
(a) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) William B. Stockman.
(d) A. V. Kellogg.

2. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Topeka, Kansas.
(c) Omaha, Nebraska.
(d) Tulsa, Oklahoma.

3. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

4. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?
(a) The University of Alaska.
(b) The University of Arkansas.
(c) The University of Virginia.
(d) The University of Montana.

5. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?

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

5. 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.

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