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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: the Serpent's Coil.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1885.

3. Chief Stockman's station failed to detect the switch in wind direction in what city?
(a) Key West, Florida.
(b) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(c) Havanna, Cuba.
(d) Cancun, Mexico.

4. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
(a) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(b) Colonel William Sterett.
(c) Chief Willis Moore's.
(d) Evangelista Torricelli.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

2. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?

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

4. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?

5. In August of what year did Columbus' ships sail on smooth waters under blue skies when an observer sounded the alarm after sighting huge swells just ahead, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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