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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?
(a) Willis Moore.
(b) Ruby Credo.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) William Redfield.

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) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) San Francisco.

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

4. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Beer.
(d) Cotton.

5. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?
(a) 225 mph.
(b) 165 mph.
(c) 100 mph.
(d) 80 mph.

6. In Galveston on September 6th, Joseph Cline made his weather observations at what time?
(a) 2:15 p.m.
(b) 7:45 p.m.
(c) 7:00 a.m.
(d) 4:30 a.m.

7. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Niger.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Morocco.

8. What General of the US Signal Corps wanted to staff his department with the best in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) J. W. Simmons.
(b) William Sterett.
(c) T. P. Halsey.
(d) William B. Hazen.

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

10. 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.

11. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Spain.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Cuba.

12. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1891.

13. 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 Romans.
(b) The Byzantines.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Egyptians.

14. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?
(a) 80 degrees.
(b) 57 degrees.
(c) 71 degrees.
(d) 92 degrees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was assigned as a new bureau forecast official for Havana?

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. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?

4. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

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

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