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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 was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) Willis Moore.
(b) Ruby Credo.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) William Redfield.

2. 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.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Denver.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Seattle.

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

4. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Animal trainer.
(d) Park ranger.

5. 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.
(a) Camera.
(b) Automobile.
(c) Train.
(d) Telegraph.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?

2. Chief Stockman was irritated that the Cuban forecasters had referred to the storm as _____________.

3. What city suffered from twelve consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or above, prior to the hurricane that hit Galveston?

4. What was the name of Louisa Rollfing's husband?

5. How far from Galveston was the hurricane when Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th?

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