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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 165 mph.
(b) 80 mph.
(c) 100 mph.
(d) 225 mph.

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

3. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Frank.
(b) Dean Jones.
(c) Dean Bruner.
(d) Dean Williams.

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

5. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) George Washington.

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

7. Chief Stockman's station failed to detect the switch in wind direction in what city?
(a) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(b) Key West, Florida.
(c) Havanna, Cuba.
(d) Cancun, Mexico.

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

9. The sequence that consisted of dry air, blue skies, and fair conditions changed to dominating high clouds and gray skies. Eventually, dark skies and a lower cloud ceiling were known as the _____________.
(a) August wave.
(b) July rollercoaster.
(c) July dream.
(d) August breeze.

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

11. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Edison.
(d) Einstein.

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

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

14. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1915.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chief Stockman was irritated that the Cuban forecasters had referred to the storm as _____________.

3. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, Isaac walked to the beach and noted the arrival of a large British steamship called _____________.

4. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?

5. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?

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