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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. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Edison.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Newton.
(d) Aristotle.

2. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?
(a) Matthew and Harriet Cline.
(b) Thomas and Betsy Cline.
(c) Bradley and Susan Cline.
(d) Jacob and Mary Cline.

3. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) Evangelista Torricelli.
(c) Chauncey Depew.
(d) Ernest Zebrowski.

4. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Frank.
(b) Dean Williams.
(c) Dean Jones.
(d) Dean Bruner.

5. In November 1703, the coast of England was hit by a series of powerful storms, killing more than how many seamen?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 4,500.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 12,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

2. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?

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

4. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

5. Going back to the third century BC, who noted that "air" had substance, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

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