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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1893.

2. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Spain.
(d) Cuba.

3. Captain Simmons's first officer felt they were in a confluence of storms--a hurricane from the east and a gale from what direction?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northwest.

4. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?
(a) The University of Montana.
(b) The University of Virginia.
(c) The University of Arkansas.
(d) The University of Alaska.

5. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
(a) Chief Willis Moore's.
(b) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(c) Colonel William Sterett.
(d) Evangelista Torricelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who insisted on staying in Isaac Cline's house, believing it to be capable of withstanding the storm?

2. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?

3. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?

4. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?

5. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?

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