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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 sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(b) Bat Masterson.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Willis Moore.

2. Who was assigned as a new bureau forecast official for Havana?
(a) Ernest Zebrowski.
(b) William B. Stockman.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Henry Piddington.

3. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) John Blagden.
(c) Edmund Halley.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

4. What General of the US Signal Corps wanted to staff his department with the best in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) William Sterett.
(b) J. W. Simmons.
(c) William B. Hazen.
(d) T. P. Halsey.

5. On September 4, 1900 what knocked out the city of Galveston's power and threw all the government buildings into darkness?
(a) A dust storm.
(b) Lightning.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Chief of the U S Weather Bureau in 1900?

2. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?

3. Where was Isaac Cline born?

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?

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

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