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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. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
2. What city suffered from twelve consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or above, prior to the hurricane that hit Galveston?
3. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?
4. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?
5. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Isaac Cline recall his childhood in Part I: The Law of Storms? Where did he grow up?
2. Who was assigned as bureau forecast official in Cuba? How was this meteorologist described by the author?
3. What were the predictions by the US Weather Bureau for the storm when it hit Florida?
4. What had Isaac Cline considered as a profession before going into 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. How did the actions of the Weather Bureau affect sea captains such as T.P. Halsey?
7. According to the author, for what reason do some tropical disturbances cross the Atlantic, but others do not?
8. What experiences with hurricanes did Christopher Columbus encounter, according to the author?
9. What concerned Isaac about the weather on the night of September 7, 1900?
10. What did the weather readings tell Isaac Cline on the morning of September 8, 1900? How did Isaac feel about the situation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the meteorological discoveries of Thomas Jefferson, the Byzantine Empire, Aristotle and the Greeks, and Galileo. Of what importance were these men's discoveries to Isaac Cline? How had history developed a fascination for the weather in Isaac? In what ways did Isaac as a "scientist" relate to these historical figures?
Essay Topic 3
Should the media censor information which could lead to panic? In the case of the hurricane of 1900, would the civilians have been better off knowing that a "cyclone" were approaching? What examples from contemporary society can we see of the media or governmental agencies censoring what is told to the public?
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