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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Captain Simmons ordered his crew to head for the channel at the east end of _____________.
(a) Dallas.
(b) Galveston Island.
(c) The Texas panhandle.
(d) The Rio Grande.

2. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
(a) Evangelista Torricelli.
(b) Colonel William Sterett.
(c) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(d) Chief Willis Moore's.

3. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?
(a) A. V. Kellogg.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) William B. Stockman.
(d) William Dampier.

4. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?
(a) July 25, 1885.
(b) July 6, 1882.
(c) April 2, 1894.
(d) October 11, 1887.

5. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) J. W. Simmons.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) William Dampier.
(d) Henry Howgate.

6. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Ernest Zebrowski.
(b) Henry Piddington.
(c) Joe Amando.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

7. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?
(a) 8.7.
(b) 4.2.
(c) 12.6.
(d) 17.9.

8. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Headwind.
(c) Tailwind.
(d) Pushwind.

9. What refers to the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere?
(a) Troposphere.
(b) Thermosphere.
(c) Stratosphere.
(d) Mesosphere.

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

11. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
(a) Dean Bruner.
(b) William Redfield.
(c) Edmund Halley.
(d) Henry Howgate.

12. 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?
(a) July 4, 1899.
(b) August 27, 1900.
(c) June 18, 1901.
(d) September 20, 1902.

13. Chief Stockman was irritated that the Cuban forecasters had referred to the storm as _____________.
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A cyclone.
(d) A tsunami.

14. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Buffalo Bill Cody.

15. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, Isaac walked to the beach and noted the arrival of a large British steamship called _____________.
(a) Englands Majesty.
(b) The Queen Mary III.
(c) The Roma.
(d) The King Charles II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

2. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?

3. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?

4. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

5. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the Thursday morning weather map did not show temperatures for Key West. Instead, what letter was inserted?

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