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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 14.
(b) 30.
(c) 147.
(d) 65.

3. 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) Seattle.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

6. 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) 100 mph.
(b) 225 mph.
(c) 80 mph.
(d) 165 mph.

7. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Nonlinear dynamics.
(b) Headwind.
(c) Pushwind.
(d) Tailwind.

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

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

10. 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 B. Hazen.
(c) T. P. Halsey.
(d) William Sterett.

11. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Ecology.
(c) Stormology.
(d) Climatology.

12. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(b) Niger.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Hispaniola.

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

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

15. Who was assigned as a new bureau forecast official for Havana?
(a) Ernest Zebrowski.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) William B. Stockman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?

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

4. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?

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

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