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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 Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) William Dampier.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) J. W. Simmons.

2. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1892.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.

2. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?

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

4. 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.

5. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?

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