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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(b) Hispaniola.
(c) Niger.
(d) Cameroon.

2. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac sent a telegram to the Central Office where advising them that the water was high and there were opposing winds?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

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

4. Isaac wrote an urgent cable to Willis Moore telling him of the terrible situation and gave the message to whom to deliver?
(a) Joseph Cline.
(b) Cora Cline.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) William Redfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On September 1, 1900, the Rollfing family made their last payment on what?

2. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

3. On September 4, 1900 what knocked out the city of Galveston's power and threw all the government buildings into darkness?

4. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?

5. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

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