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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Denver.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Seattle.

2. On September 4, 1900 what knocked out the city of Galveston's power and threw all the government buildings into darkness?
(a) A tornado.
(b) Lightning.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A dust storm.

3. What was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?
(a) "The Louisiana."
(b) "The Virginia."
(c) "The California."
(d) "The Colorado."

4. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

5. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) The Byzantines.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Romans.

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

7. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Ernest Zebrowski.
(b) Evangelista Torricelli.
(c) Edmund Halley.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

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

9. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Sunday.

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

11. 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 Dampier.
(d) William B. Stockman.

12. What college did Isaac Cline attend?
(a) Tulane College.
(b) Menominee College.
(c) Savannah College.
(d) Hiwassee College.

13. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

14. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?
(a) The University of Arkansas.
(b) The University of Montana.
(c) The University of Virginia.
(d) The University of Alaska.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?

2. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?

3. In what year did Isaac Cline join the meteorology training program of the US Army Signal Corps?

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

5. What refers to the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere?

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