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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 college did Isaac Cline attend?
(a) Savannah College.
(b) Hiwassee College.
(c) Menominee College.
(d) Tulane College.

2. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Evangelista Torricelli.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Edmund Halley.

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

4. What was the name of the captain who commanded the "Pensacola"?
(a) J. W. Simmons.
(b) T. P. Halsey.
(c) William Sterett.
(d) William B. Hazen.

5. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the Thursday morning weather map did not show temperatures for Key West. Instead, what letter was inserted?
(a) "X."
(b) "R."
(c) "M."
(d) "D."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

2. In 1900, Galveston was the biggest port for what product in the United States?

3. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

4. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

5. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author describe the weather events in Galveston on September 4, 1900? What did Isaac Cline note about the weather?

5. How does the author describe the summer of 1900 in terms of weather in Introduction: The Beach? How is the setting of Galveston described during this time period?

6. What concerned Isaac about the weather on the night of September 7, 1900?

7. 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?

8. Where was Isaac Cline sent to work in 1891? How was his work there perceived by his superiors? How did Isaac perceive his work?

9. According to the author, for what reason do some tropical disturbances cross the Atlantic, but others do not?

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

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