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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Isaac Cline born?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1912.

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

3. What was the maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?
(a) Cora Betsy Huffington.
(b) Cora Sue Smith.
(c) Cora Rebecca Rodgers.
(d) Cora May Ballew.

4. In what year did Isaac Cline join the meteorology training program of the US Army Signal Corps?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1888.

5. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
(a) Cameroon.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Niger.
(d) Morocco.

6. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

7. The ship "The Louisiana" sailed from what location to Galveston during the hurricane of 1900?
(a) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(b) Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
(c) Gulfport, Mississippi.
(d) Port Arthur, Louisiana.

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

9. What was the name of Louisa Rollfing's husband?
(a) August.
(b) Glenn.
(c) Forest.
(d) Jacob.

10. What was the name of the captain who commanded the "Pensacola"?
(a) J. W. Simmons.
(b) William B. Hazen.
(c) William Sterett.
(d) T. P. Halsey.

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

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

13. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 25.

14. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
(a) August, 1900.
(b) September, 1899.
(c) July, 1904.
(d) June, 1897.

15. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?
(a) Matthew Cline.
(b) Robert Cline.
(c) Joseph Cline.
(d) William Cline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?

2. The fact that Isaac Cline paid cash for goods and services was published in a directory by what company?

3. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

4. 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.

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

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