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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law of Storms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people die from the heat in New York City on August 11, 1900?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 90.

2. What does Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discover?
(a) Wind speed.
(b) Barometer.
(c) Thermometer.
(d) Tidal chart.

3. Where do Isaac and his family go on Sundays?
(a) Synagogue.
(b) Catholic church.
(c) The movies.
(d) The bathhouses.

4. General Hazen is in charge of what?
(a) U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(b) U.S. Army.
(c) U.S. Signal Corps.
(d) U.S. Weather Bureau.

5. Who is Willis Moore?
(a) U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
(b) Minister of the First Methodist Church.
(c) Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
(d) Mayor of Galveston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes parodies about the efforts of the weather service?

2. According to Zebrowski, a hurricane can start with all these except one:

3. An easterly wind converges over the ________ in the early weeks of August 1900.

4. What time does six-year-old Isaac get up to start his chores?

5. How many people does the last paragraph of "The Beach" say will die in the next twenty-four hours?

(see the answer key)

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