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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. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 14.
(b) 30.
(c) 147.
(d) 65.

2. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) Joe Amando.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Bat Masterson.

3. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?
(a) The Boxer Rebellion.
(b) The Panda Movement.
(c) The Bamboo Storm.
(d) The Samurai Revolution.

4. Who was the Chief of the U S Weather Bureau in 1900?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Judson Palmer.
(d) Willis Moore.

5. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Pushwind.
(c) Headwind.
(d) Tailwind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

2. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

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

4. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?

5. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?

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