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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. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) Hispaniola.
(b) Niger.
(c) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(d) Cameroon.

2. 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) Ruby Credo.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) Willis Moore.

3. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Ernest Zebrowski.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Joe Amando.
(d) Henry Piddington.

4. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) William Dampier.
(c) Chauncey Depew.
(d) John Blagden.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.

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. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

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