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

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

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

4. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Cotton.

5. On September 1, 1900, the Rollfing family made their last payment on what?
(a) A piano.
(b) A farm.
(c) A house.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?

3. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

4. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?

5. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

(see the answer key)

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