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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) William Cline.
(d) Joseph Cline.

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

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

6. On September 1, 1900, the Rollfing family made their last payment on what?
(a) A farm.
(b) A piano.
(c) A car.
(d) A house.

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

8. Chief Stockman was irritated that the Cuban forecasters had referred to the storm as _____________.
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A tsunami.
(d) A cyclone.

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

10. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1892.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?
(a) Jacob and Mary Cline.
(b) Matthew and Harriet Cline.
(c) Thomas and Betsy Cline.
(d) Bradley and Susan Cline.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?

5. Where was Isaac Cline born?

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