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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Bat Masterson.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Joe Amando.

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

4. In what year was Isaac Cline born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1885.

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.
(a) Denver.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

2. 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?

3. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?

4. What was the maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?

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

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