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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?
(a) September 20, 1902.
(b) June 18, 1901.
(c) August 27, 1900.
(d) July 4, 1899.

2. When Isaac finally reached home in Part III: Spectacle, his yard was already how deep in water?
(a) Eight inches.
(b) Chest deep.
(c) Neck deep.
(d) Two feet.

3. What Englishman studied the significance of the colors of the skies just prior to a storm?
(a) William Redfield.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) J. W. Simmons.
(d) William Dampier.

4. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?
(a) Tailwind.
(b) Pushwind.
(c) Nonlinear dynamics.
(d) Headwind.

5. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Cuba.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Niger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the letter that Willis Moore wrote defending the forecasting conducted by the Weather Bureau published?

2. What refers to a wireless solar telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror?

3. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

4. What humanitarian arrived to help and sent a message that the situation had not been exaggerated?

5. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?

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