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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 was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) Willis Moore.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Ruby Credo.
(d) Henry Howgate.

2. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
(a) William Redfield.
(b) Dean Bruner.
(c) Edmund Halley.
(d) Henry Howgate.

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 dream.
(b) August wave.
(c) August breeze.
(d) July rollercoaster.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

2. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?

3. What General of the US Signal Corps wanted to staff his department with the best in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

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

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