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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 was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?
(a) William Cline.
(b) Joseph Cline.
(c) Robert Cline.
(d) Matthew Cline.

2. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
(a) Egypt.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Niger.

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

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1906.

5. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) John Adams.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

2. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac sent a telegram to the Central Office where advising them that the water was high and there were opposing winds?

3. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

4. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

5. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?

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