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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Cameroon.
(d) Morocco.

3. On September 4, 1900 what knocked out the city of Galveston's power and threw all the government buildings into darkness?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A dust storm.
(c) Lightning.
(d) A tornado.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

2. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

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

4. What college did Isaac Cline attend?

5. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the storm that hit Galveston enter the Caribbean, according to the author in Part II: the Serpent's Coil? What conditions led it to grow there?

2. How does the author describe the Rollfings? When did they marry?

3. What conditions made the storm that hit Galveston form and grow?

4. Who was assigned as bureau forecast official in Cuba? How was this meteorologist described by the author?

5. What were the predictions by the US Weather Bureau for the storm when it hit Florida?

6. What had led to the schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

7. Where did the storm that hit Galveston begin forming? What were atmospheric pressure conditions like in the US at this time?

8. What had Isaac Cline considered as a profession before going into weather?

9. Where and with whom did Isaac Cline live in the year 1900? How is his house described in Introduction: The Beach?

10. How does the author describe Joseph Cline's weather observations on September 6, 1900?

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