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

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

3. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Ecology.
(c) Climatology.
(d) Stormology.

4. How far from Galveston was the hurricane when Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th?
(a) 475 miles.
(b) 200 miles.
(c) 550 miles.
(d) 800 miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Galveston on September 6th, Joseph Cline made his weather observations at what time?

2. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?

3. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

4. What was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?

5. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?

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