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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. Where was Isaac Cline born?
(a) Gardinerville, Montana.
(b) Phoenix, Oregon.
(c) Madisonville, Tennessee.
(d) Mariposa, California.

2. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt.

3. The sequence that consisted of dry air, blue skies, and fair conditions changed to dominating high clouds and gray skies. Eventually, dark skies and a lower cloud ceiling were known as the _____________.
(a) August wave.
(b) July dream.
(c) July rollercoaster.
(d) August breeze.

4. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Newton.
(b) Edison.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Einstein.

5. Chief Stockman's station failed to detect the switch in wind direction in what city?
(a) Cancun, Mexico.
(b) Havanna, Cuba.
(c) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(d) Key West, Florida.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?

3. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast in what year?

4. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

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