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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 maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?
(a) Cora Rebecca Rodgers.
(b) Cora May Ballew.
(c) Cora Betsy Huffington.
(d) Cora Sue Smith.

2. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
(a) June, 1897.
(b) July, 1904.
(c) August, 1900.
(d) September, 1899.

3. What was the name of the captain who commanded the "Pensacola"?
(a) T. P. Halsey.
(b) J. W. Simmons.
(c) William B. Hazen.
(d) William Sterett.

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

5. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) Dean Bruner.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) William Redfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

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

3. 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.

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

5. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

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