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

2. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
(a) September 7, 1900.
(b) May 16, 1898.
(c) March 1, 1911.
(d) January 22, 1894.

3. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?
(a) Bradley and Susan Cline.
(b) Thomas and Betsy Cline.
(c) Matthew and Harriet Cline.
(d) Jacob and Mary Cline.

4. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Ecology.
(c) Stormology.
(d) Climatology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?

2. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

4. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?

5. In November 1703, the coast of England was hit by a series of powerful storms, killing more than how many seamen?

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