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

2. In November 1703, the coast of England was hit by a series of powerful storms, killing more than how many seamen?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 4,500.

3. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Tailwind.
(c) Headwind.
(d) Pushwind.

4. 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) Henry Howgate.
(c) Ruby Credo.
(d) William Redfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?

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

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. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?

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

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