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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. What was the maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?
(a) Cora Rebecca Rodgers.
(b) Cora Betsy Huffington.
(c) Cora Sue Smith.
(d) Cora May Ballew.

2. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?
(a) The Panda Movement.
(b) The Samurai Revolution.
(c) The Bamboo Storm.
(d) The Boxer Rebellion.

3. Where was Isaac Cline born?
(a) Mariposa, California.
(b) Gardinerville, Montana.
(c) Phoenix, Oregon.
(d) Madisonville, Tennessee.

4. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
(a) January 22, 1894.
(b) September 7, 1900.
(c) March 1, 1911.
(d) May 16, 1898.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

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

3. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

4. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?

5. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.

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