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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 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) Joe Amando.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Henry Piddington.

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

3. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Cameroon.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Niger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?

4. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?

5. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?

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