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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. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?
2. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
3. Who was assigned as a new bureau forecast official for Havana?
4. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
5. What astronomer was the first to recognize that the earth's rotation had a great impact on weather?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to the author, for what reason do some tropical disturbances cross the Atlantic, but others do not?
3. What associations did Isaac Cline have with the medical profession? How did this correlate to meteorology?
4. What experiences with hurricanes did Christopher Columbus encounter, according to the author?
5. Where and with whom did Isaac Cline live in the year 1900? How is his house described in Introduction: The Beach?
6. Where was Isaac Cline sent to work in 1891? How was his work there perceived by his superiors? How did Isaac perceive his work?
7. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?
8. What had led to the schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
9. How did Isaac Cline recall his childhood in Part I: The Law of Storms? Where did he grow up?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe one element of foreshadowing in the first section of the book and analyze it. What is the author's purpose in using foreshadowing here? How does the foreshadowing impact the reader? Why does the author choose to introduce Captain Simmons in the first section?
Essay Topic 2
Define the August wave, and discuss the atmospheric conditions which took place leading up to the hurricane of 1900. How did the August wave help to strengthen the storm? How does the butterfly effect apply to the hurricane of 1900?
Essay Topic 3
Identify, analyze and discuss the point of view of the narrative. In what tense and person is the story told? Whose perspective does the reader see the events through, primarily? Is the point of view omniscient or limited?
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