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

2. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Bruner.
(b) Dean Frank.
(c) Dean Williams.
(d) Dean Jones.

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

4. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Evangelista Torricelli.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

5. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?

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

3. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?

5. The invention of the __________ was key to the development and effectiveness of the Weather Bureau allowing for the rapid transmission of weather forecasts from city to city.

(see the answer key)

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