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

2. Dr. Young watched from the second floor of his house with fascination as the water rushed down the streets not knowing that ____________ were floating in it.
(a) Corpses.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Clothes.

3. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Climatology.
(c) Ecology.
(d) Stormology.

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

5. Isaac visited some merchants whom he told to raise their products how high off the floor because there could be some minor flooding?
(a) 10 inches.
(b) 5 feet.
(c) 3 feet.
(d) 1 foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early evening, Dr. Young could only see one house in the area that was still standing. It belonged to whom?

2. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?

3. In Galveston on September 6th, Joseph Cline made his weather observations at what time?

4. Where did a train from Houston to Galveston become stalled?

5. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

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