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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. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
2. The invention of the __________ was key to the development and effectiveness of the Weather Bureau allowing for the rapid transmission of weather forecasts from city to city.
3. What General of the US Signal Corps wanted to staff his department with the best in Part I: The Law of Storms?
4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
5. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the "August wave" in Part I: The Law of Storms?
2. How does the author describe the weather events in Galveston on September 4, 1900? What did Isaac Cline note about the weather?
3. What invention was key to the development of the Weather Bureau according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms? How was Isaac Cline affected by the invention?
4. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?
5. 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?
6. How does the author introduce Isaac Cline in Introduction: The Beach? What led to Cline's training at the US Signal Corps?
7. What recent scandal was Isaac Cline unaware of within the Signal Corps when he entered training in Part I: The Law of Storms?
8. Who was assigned as bureau forecast official in Cuba? How was this meteorologist described by the author?
9. Where did the storm that hit Galveston begin forming? What were atmospheric pressure conditions like in the US at this time?
10. What were the predictions by the US Weather Bureau for the storm when it hit Florida?
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
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 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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