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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. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1888.

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

3. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?
(a) October 1, 1899.
(b) May12, 1901.
(c) July 18, 1898.
(d) August 31, 1900.

4. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?
(a) Henry Piddington.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) John Blagden.
(d) William Dampier.

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1908.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?

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

3. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?

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

5. 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?

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