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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 was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?
(a) "The Colorado."
(b) "The Virginia."
(c) "The Louisiana."
(d) "The California."

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

3. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

4. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?
(a) The University of Alaska.
(b) The University of Montana.
(c) The University of Virginia.
(d) The University of Arkansas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?

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

4. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?

5. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What associations did Isaac Cline have with the medical profession? How did this correlate to meteorology?

3. How were the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico affected by the heat wave described in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

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

6. How did the actions of the Weather Bureau affect sea captains such as T.P. Halsey?

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

8. 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?

9. What geographical and social elements set up the city of Galveston for major casualties in the event of a hurricane in 1900?

10. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?

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