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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Louisa Rollfing originally from?

2. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac sent a telegram to the Central Office where advising them that the water was high and there were opposing winds?

3. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?

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

5. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Isaac Cline recall his childhood in Part I: The Law of Storms? Where did he grow up?

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

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

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

8. How does the author describe the "August wave" in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the conflicts between the US Weather Bureau and the local Cuban forecasters. How was Willis Moore to blame for the animosity between the two? How many lives were potentially lost as a result of egoism? How does the author express this thematically in the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the predictions of Isaac Cline and Professor Andrew Jackson DeVoe of the 1900 hurricane. What is the significance of these predictions in terms of the book's narrative? Do they serve as symbols? How does intuition relate to Isaac and Joseph Cline?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss Rabbi Henry Cohen and the devastation of Ritter's Café in the narrative. How many individuals died in the collapse of Ritter's Café? What information does the author relate of these people? How did panic begin to spread in the city? What did the citizens do?

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